Eleanor Fowler

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VP of Engineering · Real-time systems · WebSockets

Indigo Care
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
13+ years experience
University of Michigan
English
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Overview

Currently at Indigo Care, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 58. Led the migration of 52 services to Rust. Before that: Pinterest and Microsoft. Most at home with Go and WebSockets. Coffee nerd.

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Skills
GoWebSocketsElixirRust
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Looking for a backend engineer who has worked on WebSockets at scale

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$122k-$185k + equity
Team
Real-time, 7 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with Elixir Production experience with Rust Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $186k-$313k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Indigo Care · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 2.
    • Led the migration of 72 services to Rust.
  2. Software Engineer
    Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
    Pinterest · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped 16 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
    Microsoft · 2 yr · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2017 - Mar 2021
    Bain & Company · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped 12 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 25% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2014 - Jul 2017
    Coinbase · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Wrote the WebSockets service that now handles 86 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. University of Michigan
    BSE, Computer Science
    1994 - 1998

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