Elliott Clark

Founder & CEO

• Founded Batteries Included, incorporated the company, and raised a $1.2M seed from Race Capital to fund a cross-functional team.
• Built the team from 1 to 7, recruiting, onboarding, and sprint planning, into a group who shipped 75 releases of beautiful, easy-to-use, open-source software.
• Led the creation of a self-driving cloud platform that launches Kubernetes, vector databases, serverless web, and LLM inference with a single button press.
• Ran the company beyond the code: marketing, go-to-market, customer discovery, project delivery, and stakeholder management from seed pitch through investor reporting.

• Fundraising
• Team building
• SaaS Marketing
• Sprint Planning
• Customer Outreach
• Elixir
• ML
• LLM Inference
• Kubernetes
• Grafana
• VictoriaMetrics
• AWS
• Docker

Software Engineer

• Owned stability, performance, correctness, scalability, and disaster readiness for all of Ads infrastructure.
• Directed incident response for critical Ads outages, achieving root-cause resolution within SLA and post incident team mentorship
• Created automatic A/B statistical testing and automated CI/CD of the most critical machine learning ads targeting and bidding systems.
• Introduced a novel automated traffic-guided fuzzing test for revenue-critical microservices, reducing runtime crashes by up to 90% and increasing revenue, ML/AI capacity, and reliability.
• Designed and drove the implementation and production deployment of a unique datastore, with Linux kernel network block device and Open Compute storage hardware, powering Facebook's Dynamic Audience API.
• Migrated all of Messenger to use open source HBase, improving performance and security while giving back to the world.

• Tech Lead
• Mentoring
• Data Science
• C++
• ML
• HBase
• Hadoop
• Linux
• Containers
• CI/CD

HBase Engineer

• Developed, built, debugged, and deployed open source Hadoop based solutions to customers' on premises and in cloud clusters.
• Instrumented HBase and HDFS to enable RPC tracing using HTrace and Zipkin; the Dapper like system for RPC tracing in open source.
• Created a new compaction algorithm that has 10x better hardware utilization.
• Created new UI for HBase Master and Regionserver daemons increasing adoption of HBase.

• Customer Outreach
• HBase
• Hadoop
• Java

HBase Engineer

• Became an Apache HBase committer.
• Deployed new versions of HBase to production clusters with no downtime, fixing issues and improving data store performance.
• Created new Stochastic Load Balancer that optimizes data locality, request throughput, and data sizes to better utilize server resources.

• HBase
• Java

Lead Engineer, Data & Analytics

• Promoted twice into a position managing individual contributors in the Analytics group.
• Created Scala ingestion server infrastructure; the new design improved performance, up to 15k messages per second per server, and allowed for new features.
• Architected Hadoop jobs using Hadoop, Avro, and HBase that allow executives, designers, and engineers to track revenue and user behavior from more than a billion messages a day.
• Built software to start, stop, and add to Hadoop/HBase/Zookeeper clusters on Amazon's EC2 allowing the group to rapidly adopt Hadoop and HBase.
• Designed and implemented JavaScript UI to display tens of thousands of data points per day per game in a discoverable HTML interface.

• Mentoring
• Tech Lead
• Data Science
• Full-stack
• AWS
• Scala
• Hadoop
• HBase
• JavaScript
• Python

Software Development Engineer

• Built and designed thrillcall.com including frontend, backend, and analytics with one other startup engineer.
• Implemented real-time and background content scraping systems to process and display pricing data from external web sources.
• Halved page load time by optimizing database access, creating automatic asset minification scripts, configuring caching, and other web development best practices.

• Full-stack
• Rails
• Ruby

Software Development Engineer

• Resolved more than 80 bugs in multiple areas of Windows Presentation Foundation to reach zero bug bar on schedule.
• Corrected blocking bugs in WPF to enable Blend and Visual Studio to adopt Windows Presentation Framework.
• Received a level promotion in the first year.
• Created a hot-fix for a high priority bug in libraries of .NET, enabling Windows customers to type diacritics.
• Spearheaded the effort to create a .NET WPF implementation of Microsoft Ribbon; implemented the custom window code to allow integration into the title bar.
• Drove customer adoption of WPF solutions by answering questions on MSDN Forums and Codeplex.com.

• C#
• C++
• WPF

Software Development Intern

• Prototyped a new control for use with WPF News Reader.
• Collaborated with multiple teams to implement new streams of revenue.
• Developed XML tools to deliver MSDN Magazine online using the WPF News Reader SDK.

• C#
• WPF