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Hi! I'm Elijah, software engineer and esports professional.

Using my talents I strive to develop interesting products.

Experience
JetBlue Logo

May 2025 - Present

JetBlue Airways Corporation

Senior API Engineer (Contract)

Digital Airport Experiences team:

  • Developed NestJS services to support new airport operations and inflight crew procedures as a part of the JetForward initiative
  • Championed and implemented modern API development and security practices
  • Rewrote legacy Java 8 and Express services in NestJS to bring them up to modern standards, reduce inefficiencies, and squash production issues

Potpourri of Integrations for Crew and Operations team:

  • Maintained legacy Java 8 middleware, fixing production issues that caused increased spending in customer support labor

Contractor through TEKsystems

Generation Esports Logo

Jun 2021 - Feb 2025

Generation Esports

Software Engineer III

As a fullstack engineer, my responsibilities encompassed all aspects of the tech stack and product management. Projects I had a leading role on include:

  • High availability distributed WebSocket system
  • High load statistics processing system
  • Esports industry first fully automated competitive Valorant match reporting system
  • On-demand tournament matchmaking system
  • Leaderboard style competition system
  • Gameserver cloud infrastructure and orchestration software
  • Six-figure cloud infrastructure deal with Google Cloud Platform

During my time there, I assisted with initiatives to grow the competition platform to more than 300,000 registered users and 5,000 partner schools, with an average of 1,500 daily active users or more depending on the competition season.

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