Elliot Pourmand
Staff Software Engineer, Search & AI at ClickUp
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolElliot Pourmand is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building distributed systems, real-time pipelines, and ML-backed fraud and content moderation platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise in Scala, Akka, Apache Flink and deploying ML models with TensorFlow/PyTorch and SageMaker, having led major Flink upgrades and SLO-driven reliability initiatives at Zendesk. At ClickUp he progressed from senior to staff and now principal platform engineer, blending search and AI feature work with platform-scale reliability. Elliot combines pragmatic production engineering—low-latency Akka-HTTP serving and GDPR-compliant data pipelines—with a collaborative approach that bridges data science, ML platform, and product teams. An alum of UC San Diego CSE, he’s known for turning complex streaming and ML requirements into observable, testable systems in high-throughput environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)
Github Skills (177)
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
sql10
neural-network10
search-engine10
data-science10
analytics10
java10
tensorflow10
theano10
machine-learning10
restful10
deep-neural-networks10
price-history9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ElliotVilhelm/GradeSource-AutoFill
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
elliotvilhelm/IZII
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
IZII is a Python based Chess Engine providing move generation, board evaluation, and a minimax search algorithm with alpha-beta pruning. XBoard and WinBoard Compatible.
Contributions:105 commits, 8 PRs, 94 pushes in 5 years 4 months
pythonucichess-enginepruningwinboard
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