Elijah Smith
Senior API Engineer at JetBlue
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolElijah Smith is a Senior API Engineer with a decade of software experience who blends backend systems expertise with a lifelong passion for esports. A dual CS and ITWS graduate from RPI, he has shipped production features like tournament check-in/matchmaking, leaderboards, and player statistics at Generation Esports and now builds integrations and middleware for JetBlue’s digital airport experiences. He’s comfortable maintaining legacy Java services and delivering modern NestJS middleware, reducing operational costs and improving reliability for crew and operations workflows. Elijah’s career began with repeated state and national wins in high school software competitions and matured through leadership roles running esports leagues and university clubs—experience that sharpens his focus on user-centered systems. He’s as comfortable tuning APIs for scale as he is designing rulesets and support tools for competitive gaming communities, a blend that informs pragmatic, player-focused product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High Technology High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, CSCI&ITWS dual major (AI & Data concentration), General Psychology minor, Bachelor of Science - BS, CSCI&ITWS dual major (AI & Data concentration), General Psychology minor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (51)
discord10
discord-bot10
music10
discord-js9
modular9
chatbot8
python8
bug-reporting8
sourcemod8
nodejs7
javascript7
react7
cli7
angular7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ElijahKSmith/BAG-Calculator
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Blue Archive Global Team Calculator
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 months
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Hearts-Up/hearts-up-v2
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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