Elliot Plant
Software Engineer at Anthropic
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolElliot Plant is a versatile software engineer and former founder with a decade of experience building high-throughput systems across fintech, cloud analytics, IoT, VR, and blockchain domains. He combines a mechanical engineering foundation from UCLA with deep hands-on expertise in streaming data, low-latency trading systems, and realtime analytics—having built a realtime ingestion tool at Google Cloud and market data/order-management infrastructure at Uphold. As founding engineer of Topline he led product, hiring, and customer-driven prioritization, and his open-source contributions include mobile UX fixes for the popular Habitica iOS app. Now at Anthropic, he applies his knack for system design and pragmatic tooling to large-scale problems, while still enjoying GUI debugging tools and creative technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Hack ReactorGED, GED at Marin AcademyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
ios10
swift10
bit10
habits10
filesystem9
user-interface9
cocoapods9
realm8
react6
flexbox6
nodejs6
visual-studio6
css6
typescript6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica-ios
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Native iOS app for Habitica
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to the iOS application for Habitica by implementing features and addressing issues related to notifications and user settings. They focused on modifying the app to include an application badge to display the count of unfinished dailies. The user added a setting to control the display of the badge and refined the existing codebase by adding a default for the app badge, and removing whitespace. These changes improved user experience by providing relevant information through the app badge, and the user also addressed code formatting issues.
cocoapodsobjective-cios-appios-nativeswift
elliotaplant/celestial-dance
Apr 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:149 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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