Phoenix Eliot
Core Software Engineer at Practicum by Yandex
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPhoenix Eliot is a Core Software Engineer based in Philadelphia with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and polished front-end experiences. Currently at a stealth startup while also contributing to medical and education products, Phoenix has a track record of improving UX and performance—most notably refining editor behavior and reducing flicker in the popular open-source knowledge tool Logseq. Comfortable across React-driven interfaces and backend systems from early Rails work to modern stacks, they pair hands-on implementation with curriculum development and tutoring experience. Known for finding subtle race conditions and UX edge cases, Phoenix brings pragmatic ownership to both product-facing features and developer-facing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Computer Science, 3.50, Undergraduate, Computer Science, 3.50 at Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyRails/Backbone Web Development, Rails/Backbone Web Development at App Academy
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
frontend10
front-end-development10
web-developer10
clojurescript10
react10
markdown-it9
markdown9
notepad8
ui-design8
git7
javascript7
clojure6
clojure-cli6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
logseq/logseq
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: http://trello.com/b/8txSM12G/roadmap
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Phoenix primarily focused on improving the user interface and the user experience within the Logseq application. Their contributions included reducing visual flickering during block movements, replacing the `react-visibility-sensor` library with `react-intersection-observer` for performance improvements, and fixing race conditions in the editor related to pasting and expanding blocks. Additionally, they worked on closing autocomplete menus, and improving the cursor behavior in different scenarios. These changes improved the core editing experience of the application.
knowledge-basecollaborationknowledge-graphlinkmarkdown
marklogic/design-system
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
MarkLogic Engineering UX design system
Contributions:555 commits, 89 PRs, 28 comments in 5 months
reactengineeringdesign-systemtypescriptmarklogic
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