Moxley Stratton is a seasoned CTO and founder with 25 years of web and API development experience and 16 years in senior engineering leadership roles, now based in Portland, Oregon. He builds and operates large-scale Elixir and TypeScript systems end-to-end, having taken a SaaS from zero to serving tens of thousands of users while owning architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, and observability. Known for bringing disciplined engineering practices—TDD, code reviews, standardized processes—and for hiring and mentoring teams, he has led platform work at enterprises like Estée Lauder and high-traffic marketplaces such as Weedmaps. His technical breadth spans Elixir, React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and multiple languages from Ruby to C/C++, and he contributes to Elixir open-source tooling around OpenAPI specs. Comfortable in both startup and regulated enterprise environments, he combines product-facing customer collaboration with a deep focus on long-term reliability and maintainability. An early adopter and pragmatic innovator, he has a history of introducing observability and search technologies that produced significant performance and operational gains.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Nevada, Reno
Open API Specifications for Elixir Plug applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 16 reviews, 277 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Moxley primarily contributed to the development of the backend functionality for Elixir Plug applications, focusing on the OpenAPI specifications. Their work included fixing compiler warnings, wrapping and extending tests, and addressing type-related issues in the schema casting and validation processes. Additionally, they refactored code into separate modules to improve code organization and maintainability of the project. They demonstrated strong skills in Elixir development and working with OpenAPI specifications.
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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