Elliott Clark

Founder & CEO

• Founded Batteries Included as sole founder — incorporated the company and started the build alone, then raised a $1.2M seed from Race Capital through persistent solo VC outreach, funding a full cross-functional team.
• Led our team in building a self-driving cloud platform that stood up and operated the full production stack from a single button press — provisioning Kubernetes on your own hardware or any cloud, then automatically integrating, configuring, tuning, upgrading, and self-healing every pluggable service with zero hand-written YAML, from databases and service mesh to LLM/ML serving.
• Ran the company end to end beyond the code — led marketing and go-to-market, drove customer research and discovery, owned project planning and delivery across the team, and managed investor relations from seed pitch through ongoing reporting.

• Fundraising
• Team building
• SaaS Marketing
• Elixir
• AI/ML
• LLM Inference
• Kubernetes
• Serverless

Software Engineer

• Responsible for all of Ads infrastructure stability, performance, correctness, and disaster preparedness.
• Coordinated incident responses and helped solve the toughest production stability events for Ads.
• Created automatic A/B statistical testing of the most critical machine learning ads targeting and bidding systems.
• Pioneered innovative production traffic guided fuzzing, to ensure the safety and stability of the most revenue critical code.
• Designed and led 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
• C++
• Machine Learning
• Fuzz Testing
• HBase/Hadoop
• Linux/Containers
• Continuous Deployment

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 enables HBase developers to debug and tune their uses of HBase with more confidence.
• Created a new compaction algorithm that has 10x better hardware utilization.
• Created new UI for HBase Master and Regionserver daemons increasing adoption of HBase.

• HBase
• Hadoop/HDFS
• Java
• Distributed Tracing

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 takes into consideration data locality, request throughput, and data sizes to better utilize server resources.

• HBase
• Java
• Load Balancing

Lead Engineer, Data & Analytics

• Promoted twice into a position managing individual contributors in the Analytics group.
• Created Scala server infrastructure, including servlet front-end and Akka back-end services. 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.

• Scala
• Akka
• Hadoop
• HBase
• JavaScript
• Mentoring

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
• Web Scraping
• Performance

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.
• Led 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#/.NET
• 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#/.NET
• WPF
• XML