Ella Beck

Overview

I've spent 22 years on mobile apps - first at Bank of America, now at Elmstead Consulting. Brought on-call pages for Android down from 12 a week to 1. Most at home with RocksDB and Coroutines. I mentor students through university programmes.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Elmstead Consulting · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
   • Led or co-led 40 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 31 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Senior Android Engineer

   Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
   Boeing · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Shipped 19 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
   Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Shipped 29 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
   • Took crash-free sessions from 98.5% to 99.7%.
4. Staff Android Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
   Google · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 28 a week to 1.
   • Grew the Android team from 6 to 18 engineers.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
   Bank of America · 3 yr · Full-time · Boston, MA
   • Shipped 21 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
   • Moved 93% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. USC

   BS, Mathematics
   2000 - 2004