Micah Elliott
Senior Clojure Developer at Dividend Finance
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Elliott is a Senior Clojure Developer based in Tucson with 15 years of hands-on experience building resilient back-end systems and leading teams to adopt correctness and automation practices. He currently architects and maintains a credit policy system at Dividend Finance, driving improvements across product configuration, pricing, and CI while integrating PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Salesforce, and multiple APIs. Previously he modernized critical payment and messaging infrastructure at Funding Circle—porting legacy services to Clojure/Kafka, introducing code-coverage and linting standards, and training teams on upgrades. As a co-founder and former CTO of an education startup, he combined NLP, large-scale content processing, and infrastructure automation to reach millions of users, showing a unique blend of product instinct and low-level engineering. Known for pragmatic tooling (Codox, Kondo, docdb) and build optimizations, Micah favors correctness-first development and measurable operational improvements.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of OregonMS CSE, Computer Science, Engineering, MS CSE, Computer Science, Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University
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Github Skills (131)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MicahElliott/dotfiles
Apr 2012 - Dec 2021
Contributions:118 commits, 35 pushes in 9 years 9 months
MicahElliott/captain
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A simpler approach to git-hook management
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 112 pushes in 2 years
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