Elom Gomez
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElom Gomez is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web applications across startups and major platforms. He has held senior and staff roles at GitHub and currently engineers at PlanetScale while co-founding two ventures, blending product intuition with hands-on execution. His background spans full-stack Rails and modern front-end migrations, performance-driven refactors, and developer-facing infrastructure that reduce time-to-delivery. Based in Chicago and trained in computer engineering at Purdue, he pairs technical depth with mentoring and process improvements that have shortened project timelines. Off-hours he keeps things light—his GitHub bio hints at a playful side teaching a teammate how to spell.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Senior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Senior at Purdue UniversityOntario Secondary School Diploma, Computer Science, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Computer Science at Columbia International College
Github Skills (140)
clustering10
relay10
client-library10
scale10
sql10
mysql-client10
netsuite10
database10
kubernetes10
horizontal-scaling10
mysql10
vitess10
planetscale10
scaling10
database-cluster10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sight-labs/elder_wand
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 60 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
oauth2oauthclient-engineoauth-2
no-itsbackpack/active_shipping
Sep 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 7 years 3 months
shippingabstractionabstraction-libraryshopify
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