Summary
Elliot Haney is a Full Stack Developer and curricula manager with 9 years of experience building education-first software and leading engineering at a fintech startup. He has repeatedly owned full lifecycle development—from redesigning onboarding flows to stabilizing cloud functions and external API integrations—delivering measurable reliability and performance improvements. As a founding member of CMU CS Academy he built and scaled Python curricula used by hundreds of thousands of students, cut product issues by 97%, and grew the user base through rapid product iteration. Now contracting, he combines hands-on engineering with curriculum design, creating CS materials, autograding systems, and cross-organization cybersecurity coursework. Comfortable across JavaScript, Python, cloud APIs, and data-driven product decisions, he brings a rare blend of classroom pedagogy and production-grade engineering. Based in Seattle, he excels at turning educational needs into robust, user-focused software.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University