Isaac Sanders
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at DRW
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolIsaac Sanders is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in Chicago with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems and mentoring high-performing teams. At DRW he has progressed from engineer to tech lead, driving delivery and engineering practices with a focus on Lean, Agile, and Software Craftsmanship. He contributes to open-source Elixir tooling—improving observability and robustness in the popular quantum-core cron scheduler by adding telemetry and better error handling. Known for pragmatism and an engineer-first leadership style, he blends hands-on coding with process refinement to reduce operational pain. He began his career shipping consumer apps and quickly adapted across languages and stacks, demonstrating an appetite for learning and system-level thinking.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (6)
cron10
logging10
telemetry10
elixir10
scheduler10
testing9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
quantum-elixir/quantum-core
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
:watch: Cron-like job scheduler for Elixir
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Isaac primarily contributed to the backend of the `quantum-core` repository, focusing on improving error handling and logging within the Elixir codebase. They addressed task failures by logging errors instead of returning them, enhancing the system's robustness. Additionally, the user implemented the `:telemetry.span/3` and added telemetry events for monitoring and debugging. These changes aimed to provide better observability and facilitate troubleshooting within the cron-like job scheduler.
schedulerelixirjobjob-schedulercron
isaacsanders/ecto
Mar 2017 - Aug 2021
A database wrapper and language integrated query for Elixir
Contributions:14 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 5 months
queryintegratedlanguage-integrated-querysqlelixir
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