Summary
Elton Murillo is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing web and backend systems across enterprise and startup environments in the Bay Area. Currently at Microsoft, he has previously driven supply-chain and promotional systems at Gap Inc., migrated legacy Java monoliths to microservices, and shipped customer-facing newsroom tooling and ETL work at Business Wire. He blends strong computer-science fundamentals with practical full-stack skillsβJava/Spring, Postgres, Redis, React/Ember/Angular, and deployment tooling like Nginx and Azureβwhile advocating test-driven development and CI practices. Elton has a track record of delivering fault-tolerant batch processing and cost-saving automation, and he actively sharpens his UI/UX sensibilities by studying application design. A San Jose State alum based in San Leandro, he combines disciplined engineering with a relentless drive to learn and turn ideas into production software. Checkable work lives on his site and GitHub, reflecting a hands-on, improvement-oriented approach rather than purely managerial ambitions.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San JosΓ© State University
English, Tagalog, Spanish