Summary
Elliott O'hara is a senior principal architect and software leader with 15+ years of experience designing resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms and feature engineering pipelines. He blends hands-on engineering—building everything from petabyte-scale ETL and fraud-blocking systems to consumer photo personalization features—with coaching that turns individual engineers into high-performing teams. Elliott has repeatedly delivered measurable impact, including multi-million dollar AWS cost savings, dramatic reductions in bot-driven fraud, and production services that survived critical enterprise outages. He excels at eliminating waste and creating ephemeral, testable infrastructure and event-driven architectures that make systems easier to change. Based in Austin, he pairs deep operational experience across AWS, Terraform, Snowflake, and serverless patterns with a practical obsession for enabling others to do things they once thought impossible.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Daytona State College