Elliott Beach
Software Developer at Epic
Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliott Beach is a software developer with 10 years of full-stack experience specializing in infrastructure for complex healthcare frameworks at Epic. He has a track record of improving reliability and performance—reducing web server drain time by over 95% through session migration and hardening concurrent data structures for serialization. Elliott pairs practical backend and DevOps skills with open-source contributions to notable projects like google/go-github and OpenFaaS, where he implemented API fixes, testing, HTTP timeouts, and Kubernetes readiness probes. He also improved developer UX in community tools such as a terminal Stack Overflow client by decoupling concerns and adding an interactive console. Based in Minnesota, he combines formal CS training with hands-on problem solving across crash diagnostics, security changes to core frameworks, and CI/CD troubleshooting. Colleagues describe him as methodical and pragmatic, able to tame legacy complexity while raising code quality through thoughtful reviews.
10 years of coding experience
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
Stackoverflow
11,044reputation
859kreached
56answers
24questions
docker
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go
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typescript
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post
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asynchronous
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ubuntu
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Github Skills (40)
asynchronous10
debugging10
kubernetes10
debug10
docker10
google-sheets-api10
github10
python10
testing10
substring10
spreadsheet10
beautifulsoup10
urwid10
dockers10
go10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
google/go-github
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 12 PRs, 84 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Elliott primarily contributed to the Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API by implementing and improving the existing functionality of the library. Their work involved adding options to methods, fixing JSON tag mapping issues in data structures, and documenting the search API. These changes enhanced the library's capabilities and corrected several bugs related to data serialization and presentation, leading to a more complete and usable API client. Additionally, the user added testing capabilities for the library to ensure data integrity.
golangapigithub-api-v3api-v3go-library
openfaas/faas-netes
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Serverless Functions For Kubernetes
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 30 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Elliott primarily contributed to enhancing the serverless function deployment infrastructure within the Kubernetes environment. They implemented HTTP timeout configurations, enabling greater control over function execution. The user also addressed a CI/CD issue related to Travis CI by implementing a workaround for character escaping problems. Furthermore, they added readiness and liveness probes to functions, as well as default values for deployment configuration, to improve deployment and monitoring.
golanghands-onfunctionsagnosticserverless
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