Eli is smart, motivated, and just makes work fun. Clearly a gifted backend programmer yet over the time we worked together he became a gifted front-end engineer in his spare time. Yes, his job was back-end code but he would show me all these amazing front-end projects he wrote (a game written in react which was basically a birthday card for the present, a chrome extension to enhance the spelling-bee game on NYT website). There are a lot of smart people out there but Eli knows exactly how much irreverence to inject into daily work to not make it a grind and make you just enjoy work (while learning a lot from him). A couple of weeks later he’ll, in a PR, he’ll show that he learned from you too, by absorbing your best practices and integrating them into his own style of work. Eli is rare and I definitely want to work with him again.

In the short time I got to spend pair programming with and contemplating the ideal engineering culture together, I came to have great respect for Eli. He is one of the few engineers I would say has the ideal mix of intellect and empathy to be able to operate as both a leader and a strong contributor. If he and I ended up on the same team together in the future, I would be overjoyed!

Eli is smart, motivated, and just makes work fun. Clearly a gifted backend programmer yet over the time we worked together he became a gifted front-end engineer in his spare time. Yes, his job was back-end code but he would show me all these amazing front-end projects he wrote (a game written in react which was basically a birthday card for the present, a chrome extension to enhance the spelling-bee game on NYT website). There are a lot of smart people out there but Eli knows exactly how much irreverence to inject into daily work to not make it a grind and make you just enjoy work (while learning a lot from him). A couple of weeks later he’ll, in a PR, he’ll show that he learned from you too, by absorbing your best practices and integrating them into his own style of work. Eli is rare and I definitely want to work with him again.

In the short time I got to spend pair programming with and contemplating the ideal engineering culture together, I came to have great respect for Eli. He is one of the few engineers I would say has the ideal mix of intellect and empathy to be able to operate as both a leader and a strong contributor. If he and I ended up on the same team together in the future, I would be overjoyed!

Eli is smart, motivated, and just makes work fun. Clearly a gifted backend programmer yet over the time we worked together he became a gifted front-end engineer in his spare time. Yes, his job was back-end code but he would show me all these amazing front-end projects he wrote (a game written in react which was basically a birthday card for the present, a chrome extension to enhance the spelling-bee game on NYT website). There are a lot of smart people out there but Eli knows exactly how much irreverence to inject into daily work to not make it a grind and make you just enjoy work (while learning a lot from him). A couple of weeks later he’ll, in a PR, he’ll show that he learned from you too, by absorbing your best practices and integrating them into his own style of work. Eli is rare and I definitely want to work with him again.

In the short time I got to spend pair programming with and contemplating the ideal engineering culture together, I came to have great respect for Eli. He is one of the few engineers I would say has the ideal mix of intellect and empathy to be able to operate as both a leader and a strong contributor. If he and I ended up on the same team together in the future, I would be overjoyed!