Elliot Courant
Software Engineer at monetr
Lindström, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Courant is a software engineer and founder with seven years of practical experience building full-stack systems, integrations, and developer-focused database tooling. Currently at Treasury Prime and running his startup monetr, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on backend and database work. He has progressed from associate full-stack roles to lead integrations engineer, shipping robust integrations and platform features in production. An active open-source contributor, Elliot improved PostgreSQL-focused Go ORM go-pg/pg with schema, partitioning, and query optimization enhancements that reflect a focus on performance and real-world data problems. Based in Lindström, Minnesota, he approaches coding with a candid, experimental public persona—"making stupid choices in public"—which accelerates learning and community feedback.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Century College
Github Skills (13)
databases10
go10
orm10
postgresql10
sql10
database10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
partitioning9
schema-design9
testing8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
go-pg/pg
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Golang ORM with focus on PostgreSQL features and performance
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 17 commits, 66 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Elliot contributed to the `go-pg/pg` repository by implementing features related to database schema management and query optimization. Their work focused on adding support for tablespaces and partition options within the ORM, allowing users to specify storage locations and partition strategies. The user also addressed issues with batch updates, serial column handling, and soft delete joins, improving the library's robustness and functionality. Further contributions included fixing issues related to handling pointer uint64 values during inserts and adding support for multiple named unique constraints for a single column.
golangjsonbsqlperformancedatabase
monetr/web-ui
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Web interface for the budgeting application.
Contributions:1 release, 48 PRs, 122 pushes in 2 months
reactbudgetingbudgeting-applicationweb-interface
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