Eliot Walker
Founding AI Engineer at Petual
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEliot Walker is a Founding AI Engineer and seasoned software leader with 11+ years building zero-to-one products and operating critical systems at scale from San Francisco. He led technical strategy and large multi-pod execution at Lyft, shipping Navigation, Parking, Roadside Assistance, and vehicle service platforms while mentoring emerging leaders and guiding promotion committees. His deep expertise in telemetry, mapping, and time-series spatial-temporal indexing has driven architectural shifts—rewriting services from Python to Go and adopting streaming and TSDB patterns to cut costs and improve accuracy. Comfortable at the intersection of product and infrastructure, he has repeatedly taken ownership of real-time GPS ingestion, billing, and accounting systems that underpin customer-facing experiences. Now as a founding engineer in AI, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-functional leadership to turn ambiguous problems into production systems. An early robotics researcher and former Student Union finance VP, he pairs technical depth with operational rigor and financial-minded decision making.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (78)
dynamodb10
pythonic9
github-api9
api9
amazon-dynamodb9
http-api9
python9
amazon-kinesis9
infrastructure9
marshmallow9
amazon9
protobuf8
scale8
infrastructure-management8
github-bot8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lyft/dynamodb-hive-serde
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
lyftdata-formatbackup-datadynamodbdynamodb-backup
ewalker11/walkerdowntheaisle
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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