Elijah Potter
Software Engineer at Automattic
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolElijah Potter is a software engineer with eight years of experience building web-native tooling and developer-facing platforms, currently at Automattic after founding Harper, a grammar-checker startup that was acquired. He combines full-stack expertise with systems-level work—shipping TypeScript front-ends, Rust/WebAssembly components, and cloud collaboration systems—most notably creating a real-time JS bundler compiled to WASM and a Google Docs–style sharing layer for robotics education. His background includes internships and prototyping at Google and Tyler Technologies, and hands-on devops and automation earlier in his career, where pragmatic scripting saved a small company thousands. Based in Golden, Colorado, he’s as comfortable leading cross-functional teams and instituting Git/Kanban workflows as he is authoring user-facing products, and he has a knack for turning complex robotics tooling into approachable educational experiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
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Github Skills (173)
parser10
cargo10
language-server-protocol10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
mason10
webassembly10
rust10
developer-tools10
neovim-plugin10
obsidian10
generator10
plugin10
neovim10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elijah-potter/dots
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 commits, 61 pushes in 10 months
Automattic/harper
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
The Grammar Checker for Developers
Contributions:25 releases, 188 reviews, 511 PRs in 1 year 2 months
developer-toolsenglish-languagegrammar-checkerrustwebassembly
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