Stuart Elston
Software Engineer at Fivetran
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Elston is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently working at Fivetran from Honolulu. His background spans backend services, container infrastructure, Kubernetes platform work, and cluster management from roles at Yelp, Airtable, and Census, where he focused on reliable deployments and autoscaling. He has practical DevOps chops demonstrated by contributions to Yelp's paasta PaaS—improving spark-run, AWS credential handling, and cluster autoscaler resilience. A physics graduate from Brown, he combines analytical rigor with hands-on systems engineering to simplify complex distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who both ships pragmatic fixes and thinks about long-term platform robustness.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Brown University
Github Skills (12)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
docker10
devops10
python10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
scripting9
aws9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:142 reviews, 253 commits, 150 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Stuart's contributions centered on improving the `paasta/paasta` platform-as-a-service. They modified the `spark-run` subcommand to pass pyspark options through to the final docker command and handle invocations without options. The user also made the cluster autoscaler more resilient to scaling down when not all instances have joined the cluster. Furthermore, they added options for fetching AWS credentials in spark-run and released a new version of the tool.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
stug/tcpy
Nov 2020 - Jul 2024
Simple networking stack in Python using raw AF_PACKET sockets. Or maybe This Country's Poorest Yogurt.
Contributions:10 PRs, 37 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 8 months
pythonnetworkingsocketspacketnetwork
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