Elliott Spira
Field CTO at Port IO
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolElliott Spira is a Field CTO and seasoned software leader with 12 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and cost-optimization products. He co-founded and scaled GorillaStack from bootstrapped startup to acquisition—delivering an average 36% cloud savings—and later led cloud product strategy post-acquisition at SoftwareONE. At Snyk’s CTO Office he combined technical research, product discovery and commercial insight to incubate new opportunities, and today he partners with enterprises to translate platform needs into tailored engineering solutions at Port. A hands-on engineer who still contributes to serverless and infrastructure projects (for example, automating AWS resource tagging and CloudTrail-driven workflows), he blends pragmatic engineering, product intuition and go-to-market experience. Based in Tel Aviv, Elliott is known for moving fast with small teams and turning complex cloud challenges into elegant, impactful solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (21)
bash10
lambdas10
aws10
lambda10
cloudtrail9
javascript9
aws-cloudformation9
aws-cli9
serverless9
android-studio6
nodejs6
meteor6
serverless-framework6
aws-lambda6
amazon-iam6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SWO-GS/auto-tag
Sep 2015 - Jul 2021
Automatically tag AWS resources on creation, for cost assignment
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 122 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Elliott contributed primarily to infrastructure and backend development, specifically for an AWS-based serverless application. Their work includes adding and refining a Lambda function, along with the deployment script that leverages the AWS CLI. They also implemented basic testing and utilized ES6 code for handling AWS CloudTrail events. Key contributions involved integrating the autotag feature with AWS services.
cloudtrail-logsaws-resourcescloudtrail-eventsawscreation
GorillaStack/serverless-hipchat-sns-cloudwatch-alarms
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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