Hezekiah Carty
Team Lead at Elastic
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHezekiah Carty is a seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience, currently leading a team at Elastic from Albuquerque. He progressed through senior and principal data engineering roles after Endgame’s acquisition, blending threat research, meteorological analytics, and large-scale data platform expertise. Deeply pragmatic and hands-on, he still contributes to open-source OCaml projects—improving core libraries like Lwt and ocamlformat—bringing systems-level rigor to concurrent I/O and code formatting tooling. His background in atmospheric sciences and physics gives him an analytical edge for building reliable, data-driven systems that operate in production at scale.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at McDaniel CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Master of Science - MS, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology at University of Maryland
Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
futures10
async10
es6-promise10
mio10
ocaml10
iio10
nio10
lwt10
code-formatting10
concurrency10
testing9
event-sourcing9
event-emitter9
functional-programming9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ocsigen/lwt
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
OCaml promises and concurrent I/O
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 145 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Hezekiah contributed to the Lwt library by implementing new features such as `file_exists`, `take_available`, and `is_empty` for asynchronous I/O operations. They also added functionality for logging in OSX environments. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code, improved documentation, and added tests to ensure functionality and stability. These changes focused on expanding the library's capabilities and improving its usability.
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ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Auto-formatter for OCaml code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 100 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hezekiah primarily contributed to the `ocamlformat` project by addressing formatting issues and enhancing its capabilities. Their work includes fixing code formatting, improving the handling of extension points, and updating dependencies. The user also added new features and improvements to the code formatting behavior to align with OCaml language standards, ensuring compatibility with different OCaml versions.
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