Summary
Eliot Swank is a versatile software developer based in Denver with eight years of professional experience and a background that blends web development, education, and hospitality. Trained at the Turing School in Back End Engineering, he focuses on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript while freelancing on full-stack web projects. His prior roles as an adjunct professor and high-school teacher sharpened his communication, research, and long-form project execution skills, and his extensive customer-service and hospitality experience translate into strong interpersonal and client-facing abilities. Eliot’s academic training in philosophy and English underpins a talent for clear analysis and persuasive technical writing, evident in conference presentations and a master’s thesis. He brings uncommon strength in building and maintaining human networks—useful for collaborative product work and community-driven projects. Currently committed to deepening his engineering craft, he pairs curiosity with practical delivery across design, programming, and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at University of Northern Colorado
Back End Engineering, Back End Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design