Ellek Linton
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllek Linton is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with seven years building high-throughput backend systems and APIs across payments and ML infrastructure. He’s delivered production-grade integrations for Apple Pay/Google Pay at PayPal, led merchant onboarding services that unlocked millions in revenue, and worked on Snap’s feature store serving tens of millions of requests per second. Comfortable across Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python and cloud platforms, he blends backend architecture, GraphQL/REST API design, and CI/CD automation. A data-savvy tinkerer from a UC Berkeley Data Science background, he’s also built bespoke tooling and ML-driven growth systems in past startups—so he thinks about product-market impact as well as scalable implementation.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Data Science, Bachelor's degree Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyHonors High School Diploma, Honors High School Diploma at Corner Canyon High SchoolMIT Launch Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, MIT Launch Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
testing7
browser6
javascript6
testing-library5
wait5
test-runner5
cypress5
e2e4
test-suite4
test-automation4
azure-functions2
e2e-testing2
azure2
react-testing-library2
machine-learning1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elleklinton/PiedPoker
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
A dope library to play with poker probabilities ♣♦♥♠ https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1sLgDZRGmRojkJUEcHwz9o1j9ZN2j4l0p?usp=sharing
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
dopeprobabilities
elleklinton/elleklinton.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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