Eli Gundry
Builder // Shipping without writing code // β€οΈ Typescript, AI and everything inbetween
Work
Selected Work History
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Code Climate
Senior Product Engineer
π β Present πProduct Engineer
π β π- Lead an in-person team of 3 in a fast paced greenfield data analytics platform built on React Router, ClickHouse and dbt.
- Mastered agentic engineering and built a custom software factory with Mastra Cloud.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Architected iTree Landscape using Django and JavaScript, which uses satellite images and various data sources to determine where trees should be planted.
Repaired computers in a retail environment and provided support for customers' networks using Linux and Windows.
Provided help desk support for Kent State's College of Arts and Sciences.
- Used PHP with the Yii Framework to develop web applications and RESTful APIs.
- Worked in a remote environment using agile development practices using RedMine.
- Contributed to Prooflab, a project management application, with PHP & Zend Framework.
- Developed the Weapons of Mass Creation Festival 2012 website using WordPress.
- Updated content for Cleveland Magazine, Ohio Magazine, and other Great Lakes Publishing entities.
- Implemented websites for Cleveland Clinic Guesthouse and InterContinental Suites Cleveland.
Provided IT support for customers in their homes and setup various internet cafΓ©s around Ohio.
Sold consumer electronics and cell phones in a retail environment.
Education
Studied computer science, completed several internships & attended numerous hackathons. Accepted full time offer from Croscon before completion.
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.