Eliot Alter
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEliot Alter is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and full-stack web features, currently focused on reliability tooling at Stripe in San Francisco. He brings deep Python and database expertise from roles as a Database Reliability Engineer and Full Stack Developer at Yelp, where he optimized complex queries, refactored test fixtures to cut developer startup time, and redesigned email processing backends. Comfortable across MySQL, C, JavaScript/Node, and front-end technologies, Eliot favors pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability and performance. His open-source contributions to Yelp’s PaaSTA highlight attention to developer experience and documentation quality, including practical fixes to host naming and help text. Known for digging into backend systems and shipping incremental improvements, he pairs hands-on coding with a knack for simplifying operational complexity. Based in the Bay Area, he combines systems-level reliability work with product-focused feature delivery.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
West EssexBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Tufts University
Stackoverflow
3,024reputation
386kreached
62answers
10questions
ffmpeg
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
paas10
ffmpeg9
documentation9
git7
html6
nginx6
functional-programming6
php6
webm6
google-maps6
sml6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years
Contributions summary:Eliot contributed to the PaaSTA platform by primarily focusing on documentation, code formatting, and addressing minor issues. They fixed markdown formatting for documentation, corrected typos, and added spacing. They also modified the maximum hostname length and updated help text within the codebase. This work indicates a focus on improving the user experience, code quality, and system maintainability of the PaaSTA platform.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
ealter/vim_turing_machine
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
vim-modevimnormalturingturing-machine
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