Elijah Mock is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience optimizing systems and shipping user-focused web applications. He blends front-end polish—demonstrated by UX improvements and Vue component refactors on the open-source Mealie recipe manager—with back-end performance work such as an 85% API speedup and client-side caching at Milwaukee Tool. Comfortable across the stack, he has built CI/CD pipelines, automated integration tests, and cloud-integrated services using Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes POCs that projected significant cost savings. A natural team lead and mentor, he has managed help-desk teams of forty while creating productivity tools and browser extensions that improve day-to-day workflows. Based in Urbana, IL, he approaches problems with a systems mindset—optimizing how resources are used as much as the code itself—and enjoys making invisible developer ergonomics feel delightful.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Elijah focused on enhancing the user experience within the Mealie recipe manager. They implemented a navigation warning system to alert users of unsaved changes before navigating away from the edit recipe page. Furthermore, the user refactored code to use Vue components and added documentation. Their work primarily involved modifying frontend components and composables, specifically to control the warning behavior when editing recipes.
[deprecated] Website that has some stuff about me, JavaScript tests, and old/small projects.
Contributions:5 PRs, 242 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 8 months
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