Elijah Wright

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Director of Engineering at Hollow Energy · Real-time systems · Erlang/OTP, Go

Hollow Energy
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
14+ years experience
Booth School of Business
English
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Overview

Currently at Hollow Energy, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 6. Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: BlackRock and Bank of America. I write a small newsletter about real-time systems.

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Skills
low-latency systemsErlang/OTPGoRedisWebSocketsElixir
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Building out real-time at Hollow Energy: backend engineers wanted in Atlanta

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$165k-$213k + equity
Team
Real-time, 17 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with Redis Production experience with Elixir Comfort with ambiguity
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $210k-$268k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Atlanta, GAelixirredislow-latency systems
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2022 - Present
    Hollow Energy · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 615ms to 40ms.
    • Led the migration of 53 services to Elixir.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
    BlackRock · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Moved 61% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 5.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2016 - Jun 2019
    Bank of America · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Moved 62% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 12 services to Redis.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
    McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Shipped 26 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 484ms to 157ms.
  5. Staff Software Engineer
    Jan 2013 - Aug 2014
    UnitedHealth Group · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Shipped 18 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
    • Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2010 - 2012
  2. Virginia Tech
    BS, Information Technology
    2002 - 2006

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