Summary
Elijah Schow is a UI/UX Designer and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building performant web applications and polished user interfaces across startups and media companies. He blends practical front-end craftsmanship (React, TypeScript, Vue) with backend and deployment know-how (Laravel, AWS Lambda, SQL, CI), repeatedly improving performance and developer workflows—once cutting build times 3x and reducing page load by 40%. Elijah has shipped end-to-end products solo, including a tournament platform serving paying customers, and contributes to hiring and design systems at product-driven teams. A self-taught problem solver who thrives on ambiguous requirements, he pairs rapid prototyping in Figma/Adobe XD with production-grade implementations. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of visual design discipline and systems-level engineering that accelerates both user experience and operational delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
65 Credits, Computer Science, 65 Credits, Computer Science at Southern Wesleyan University