Elias McCarthy

Overview

Currently at Wharf Labs, where I lead embedded systems with a team of 45. Wrote the embedded Linux service that now handles 45 million requests a day. Before that: Scotiabank and CIBC. Marathoner (12 so far).

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2023 - Present
   Wharf Labs · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Moved 60% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Embedded Engineer

   Oct 2021 - Mar 2023
   Scotiabank · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 3.
   • Moved 63% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Embedded Engineer

   Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
   CIBC · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Wrote the Bluetooth LE service that now handles 29 million requests a day.
4. Embedded Engineer

   Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
   PwC · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Wrote the C service that now handles 41 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 18 a week to 2.
5. Embedded Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
   Meta · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Shipped 25 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.

Projects

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Education

1. Western University

   HBA, Computer Science
   2012 - 2016