Elliot Hursh
Lead Software Engineer at Deferred
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Hursh is a Lead Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications, particularly in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React. He has moved between startups and scale-ups—helping grow Opendoor’s engineering org, building core offer submission systems at Open Listings (YC W15), and shipping product-focused work at Sofn and Govly—combining hands-on coding with technical leadership. Elliot’s background in electrical engineering from Columbia and early lab work gives him a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to reliability and performance. An active contributor to front-end open-source work, he’s implemented mobile-first UI features and refactored components for a React-based email tooling project. He pairs system-level thinking with a product sensibility, regularly bridging infrastructure, developer tooling, and polished user interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics at Lewis & Clark College
French, English
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
html9
nextjs8
css8
mjml7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sofn-xyz/mailing
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Build, test, send emails with React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 90 commits, 54 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the "mailing" repository, focusing on UI component implementation and enhancement. They implemented features related to a mobile hamburger menu and a mobile previewer, modifying React components and UI layouts. Additional commits involved updating and refactoring existing components, ensuring that the codebase was up-to-date with the latest advancements.
reactemailemails
elliothursh/aws_auditor
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 months
instancesreservedaws
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