Elliot Wright
Head Of Software Engineering at Ice Travel Group
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElliot Wright is a Head of Software Engineering with 11 years' experience building high-availability, data-driven web services and leading engineering teams from Leeds. He is a pragmatic Go specialist who still codes, having led major rewrites of core travel-search services and driven Icelolly's move to Kubernetes and Terraform to cut costs and improve resilience. Elliot combines hands-on backend expertise across Go, Kotlin, Java, Node.js, PHP and Scala with strong automation and CI/CD practice (Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Drone, Concourse), and a track record of improving observability with Jaeger, Prometheus and Grafana. Comfortable owning architecture and hiring, he emphasizes developer experience, documentation and graceful degradation for unreliable third-party services. An active open-source contributor, he balances strategic leadership with shipping elegant, performant systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Information Technology, BSc Information Technology at The University of HuddersfieldRoyds Hall High School
English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
seeruk/foldup
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 110 pushes in 1 month
eidolon/console
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 18 PRs, 139 pushes in 3 months
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