Ellen Cornelius
Engineering Manager at Wheel
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllen Cornelius is an engineering manager and backend developer with nine years of experience building resilient Ruby on Rails applications and coaching teams through TDD and object-oriented design. She blends a nonprofit and public-sector background with hands-on software leadership, having progressed from backend engineer to engineering manager at Wheel while also teaching at Turing School. Ellen favors calculated risks—she pivoted careers from grant writing to code and even took a solo travel sabbatical to learn Spanish—which fuels her curiosity for new technologies and open data. Known for collaborative pair programming, clear mentorship, and turning ambiguous problems into goal-oriented partnerships, she draws on grant- and program-management experience to align engineering work with civic impact. Based in Chicago, she actively writes about technical topics and welcomes connections around technical blogging and civic tech.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems at The University of AucklandBackend Software Development, Backend Software Development at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Environmental Studies at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityWheaton Warrenville South High School
French
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (41)
slack-bot9
d3js8
cookbook8
slack-api7
isomorphic7
data-engineer7
svg7
react6
ruby-on-rails6
react-on-rails6
slack6
msword6
data-platform6
data-mesh6
analytics6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
corneliusellen/outbreak_ready
Jul 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 review, 47 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 9 months
corneliusellen/electric_roadtrip
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:35 PRs, 29 pushes, 40 branches in 1 month
planvehicleselectricstationselectric-vehicles
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