Eli Gundry
Full Stack Web Engineer // ❤️ Typescript, AI and everything inbetween
Work
Selected Work History
View full resume at eligundry.com/resume/
Workmaps
🗓 — Present 🗓Founding Software Engineer
📍 New York, NY 📍- Lead engineer for an early-stage startup building job search tools for hourly workers, using Next.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL to create a performant and type-safe application.
- Spearheaded all product experimentation initiatives using Statsig, implementing A/B testing and feature flags to drive data-informed product decisions.
- Mentored and accelerated the growth of a junior engineer through pair programming, code reviews, and architecture discussions, establishing engineering best practices for the team.
Chord Commerce
🗓 — 🗓Staff Software Engineer
📍 New York, NY 📍- Led successful client launches of an e-commerce platform while developing a React SDK, providing technical guidance to customers and agency partners to ensure seamless platform integration.
- Spearheaded documentation initiatives including a public REST API and automated SDK documentation using Typedoc, significantly improving platform accessibility and developer experience.
- Maintained and enhanced Next.js and Gatsby starter projects through regular dependency updates, feature implementations, and community issue resolution, streamlining the developer onboarding process.
Talent Inc.
🗓 — 🗓Senior Software Engineer
📍 New York, NY 📍- Tech lead of two engineers for ZipJob transitioning to a statically compiled Gatsby/React site backed by Contentful CMS, increasing the Lighthouse score 55 points & enabling our marketing team to control all copy on the website.
- Frontend tech lead of three engineers for a Customer Portal, using TypeScript, React & Go that raised NPS 25 points & average customer revenue by $8 per order.
- Frontend tech lead of three engineers for a rewritten order management system, using TypeScript, React & Go that decreased our average time to order completion by 12 hours.
- Tech lead for a dynamic payment & order offering system for contractors which decreased our average cost to fulfill an order by $10 & increased our average payout to contractors by $7.
- Implemented SSO with OAuth across all applications company wide using Okta & Auth0.
Croscon
🗓 — 🗓Software Engineer
📍 New York, NY 📍- Instilled a culture of software testing into a consulting company that previously had none, reducing the amount of time spent testing regressions manually across the company.
- Developed large portions of Weber Shandwick’s MobileCommand, a public relations crisis management web application, and GemSafe, an insurance platform, using Python and Flask.
Davey Tree
🗓 — 🗓Web Development Consultant
📍 Kent, OH 📍Architected iTree Landscape using Django and JavaScript, which uses satellite images and various data sources to determine where trees should be planted.
PC Surgeons
🗓 — 🗓Computer Technician
📍 Kent, OH 📍Repaired computers in a retail environment and provided support for customers’ networks using Linux and Windows.
Kent State University
🗓 — 🗓Student IT Worker
📍 Kent, OH 📍Provided help desk support for Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Mindbox Studios
🗓 — 🗓Web Developer
📍 Cincinnati, OH 📍- Used PHP with the Yii Framework to develop web applications and RESTful APIs.
- Worked in a remote environment using agile development practices using RedMine.
Go Media
🗓 — 🗓Web Developer
📍 Cleveland, OH 📍- Contributed to Prooflab, a project management application, with PHP & Zend Framework.
- Developed the Weapons of Mass Creation Festival 2012 website using WordPress.
Great Lakes Publishing
🗓 — 🗓Web Development Intern
📍 Cleveland, OH 📍- Updated content for Cleveland Magazine, Ohio Magazine, and other Great Lakes Publishing entities.
- Implemented websites for Cleveland Clinic Guesthouse and InterContinental Suites Cleveland.
eTek United
🗓 — 🗓Traveling IT Support
📍 Canton, OH 📍Provided IT support for customers in their homes and setup various internet cafés around Ohio.
RadioShack
🗓 — 🗓Sales Associate
📍 Wooster, OH 📍Sold consumer electronics and cell phones in a retail environment.
Education
Kent State University
🗓 — 🗓Computer Science - Coursework Towards BS
📍 Kent, OH 📍Studied computer science, completed several internships & attended numerous hackathons. Accepted full time offer from Croscon before completion.
Wayne County Schools Career Center
🗓 — 🗓Interactive Media Cohort
📍 Smithville, OH 📍High school vocational program where I learned the basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP,WordPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro & Flash. Using these skills, I created websites used by classes and external clients.
Skills & Technologies
- Fluent in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, SQL, HTML, and CSS.
- Built complex web applications using React, Next.js, Remix, Flask, Django, Gin, and WordPress.
- Loves using OpenAI, AWS, Astro, GitHub Actions, Linux, SQLite, Tailwind CSS, and Vim.
- Has a love-hate relationship (that I will happily defend) with Ansible, Cypress, Docker, Google Tag Manager, Jenkins, Okta, MySQL, and SQLAlchemy.
Activities & Interests
- Created Album Mode.party, a Remix application that recommends random albums from Spotify.
- Volunteered with Code Nation to teach web development to 10th graders during the 2022 school year.
- Presented technical talks at Remix NYC, QueensJS, and The New York City Vim Meetup.
- Alumni of HacKSU, Kent State’s hacker community and
competed in numerous hackathons including:
- KHE 2013 (2nd place), 2014, 2015
- MHacks 2013, 2014, 2015
- PennApps 2014 (1st place Intel XDK App)
- HackIllinois 2014
- Earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 2006.