Scott Gould
Tech Lead, Web Team at Elastic
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolScott Gould is a seasoned front-end tech lead with 11+ years building large-scale React-driven UIs, currently leading the Web Team at Elastic in Charlotte. He rose through engineering ranks at Elastic from Senior to Principal and now Tech Lead, driving Elastic Cloud front-end architecture, accessibility improvements, and developer productivity. Scott has deep experience designing reusable component libraries—contributing notable enhancements to the popular Elastic UI (EUI) framework such as accessible form components and a CheckableCard. His background spans startups to enterprise (Rally Health, CA Technologies, GoHealth) where he has led teams, architected single-page apps, and shipped complex benefits and security UIs. He combines a visual-arts BA from Columbia with a pragmatic engineering approach, often blending design sensibility with rigorous testing (Jest, Cypress) and accessibility-first thinking. An operator as comfortable in documentation and tests as in code, he quietly elevates UX and developer experience across products.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Visual Arts, BA, Visual Arts at Columbia University in the City of New York
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css-in-js10
eui10
elastic-ui10
react10
accessibilityservice9
accessibility9
system-design9
carbon-design-system9
sys9
system9
acessibility9
jest-environment8
jtest8
jestjs8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/eui
Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Elastic UI Framework (EUI) repository. Their work involved enhancing form elements, specifically focusing on the `EuiFormRow` and `EuiSelect` components, improving accessibility through the use of ARIA attributes and HTML attributes, and adding features like disabling options. They also implemented a new `CheckableCard` component, demonstrating expertise in React component design and integration. The contributions include modifications to both component code and related documentation and test files.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
zinckiwi/eui
Nov 2017 - Jun 2023
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Contributions:47 pushes, 11 branches, 3 tags in 5 years 7 months
elasticframeworkelastic-uiui-framework
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