# Eli Gundry (@eligundry.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/eligundry.dev
Headline: Full stack engineer dedicated to delivering results with AI
Location: New York, New York, United States

## Career

- **Senior Product Engineer at Code Climate** (Mar 2026 - Present)
- **Product Engineer at Code Climate** (Mar 2025 - Mar 2026)
- **Founding Engineer at Search Party** (Jan 2024 - Feb 2025)
  New York, US
  Founding engineer for an early-stage startup building job search tools for hourly workers, using Next.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL to create a performant and type-safe application.
  
  Spearheaded all product experimentation initiatives using Statsig, implementing A/B testing and feature flags to drive data-informed product decisions.
  
  Mentored and accelerated the growth of a junior engineer through pair programming, code reviews, and architecture discussions, establishing engineering best practices for the team.
- **Staff Engineer at Chord Commerce** (Feb 2022 - Nov 2023)
  New York, New York, US
  Led successful client launches of an e-commerce platform while developing a React SDK, providing technical guidance to customers and agency partners to ensure seamless platform integration.
  
  Spearheaded documentation initiatives including a public REST API and automated SDK documentation using Typedoc, significantly improving platform accessibility and developer experience.
  
  Maintained and enhanced Next.js and Gatsby starter projects through regular dependency updates, feature implementations, and community issue resolution, streamlining the developer onboarding process.
- **Senior Software Engineer at Career.io** (Jan 2018 - Dec 2021)
  Tech lead for moving ZipJob to a statically compiled Gatsby site backed by Contentful CMS, increasing the Lighthouse score from 30 to 85 & enabling our marketing team to control all copy on the website.
  
  Frontend tech lead for a Customer Portal that raised NPS 25 points & average customer revenue by $8.
  
  Frontend tech lead for our rewritten Expert Hub, decreasing our average time to order completion by 12 hours.
  
  Tech lead for a dynamic payment & order offering system for contractors which decreased our average cost to fulfill an order by $10 & increased our average payout to contractors by $7.
  
  Implemented single sign on through OAuth across all internal applications company wide.
- **Software Engineer at Croscon** (Apr 2015 - Oct 2017)
  Instilled a culture of software testing into a company that previously had none, reducing the amount of time spent testing regressions manually across the company.
  
  Developed large portions of Weber Shandwick's MobileCommand, a public relations crisis management web application, and GemSafe, an insurance platform, using Python and Flask.
  
  Co-authored Fleaker, which is a collection of sensible defaults and extensions for the Flask web framework.
- **Web Development Contractor at The Davey Tree Expert Company** (Oct 2014 - Apr 2015)
  Kent
  Architected and designed iTree Landscape using Django and JavaScript, which uses satellite images and various data sources to determine where trees should be planted.
- **Computer Technician at PCSurgeons** (Oct 2013 - Oct 2014)
  Kent
  Repaired computers in a retail environment and provided support for customers' networks using Linux and Windows.
- **Student IT Technician at Kent State University** (May 2013 - Aug 2013)
  Kent
  Helped provide help desk support for Kent State's College of Arts and Sciences.
- **Web Developer at Mindbox Studios** (Aug 2012 - Dec 2012)
  Cincinnati Area
  Used PHP with the Yii Framework to develop web applications and RESTful APIs. Worked in a remote environment using agile development practices using RedMine.
- **Web Developer at Go Media Inc.** (May 2011 - Jun 2012)
  Cleveland/Akron
  Used PHP with the Zend Framework to contribute to Prooflab, Go Media's project management web application.
  
  Developed the Weapons of Mass Creation Festival 2012 website using WordPress.
- **Interactive Intern at Great Lakes Publishing** (Sep 2010 - May 2011)
  Cleveland/Akron
  Updated content for Cleveland Magazine, Ohio Magazine, and other Great Lakes Publishing entities. Implemented websites for Cleveland Clinic Guesthouse and InterContinental Suites Cleveland.
- **Web Developer & IT Technician at eTek United** (Feb 2010 - Jun 2010)
  Canton
  Provided IT support for customers in their homes. Setup and supported various internet cafés around Ohio.
- **Sales Associate at RadioShack** (Jun 2009 - Feb 2010)
  Wooster
  Sold consumer electronics and cell phones in a retail environment.
- **Web Designer at Windy Hill Farm** (Dec 2007 - Apr 2008)
  This was my first job in web design. Looking back, if I had known then what I know now, I would do so many things differently. I'm sometimes embarrassed to look at it.
  
  You can view it at www.dehass.com

## Skills

### Technical
- CSS
- Docker
- Front-End Development
- HTML
- Linux
- Next.js
- PHP
- React
- SQL
### Other
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Django
- Flask
- GatsbyJS
- Git
- Go (Programming Language)
- Google Ads
- GraphQL
- HTML5
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- LLM
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- React.js
- Representational State Transfer (REST)
- TypeScript
- Vim
- Web Applications
- Web Design
- Web Development
- WordPress
- Zsh

## Publications

- 7 days ago, I felt meh (Jul 2026)
- I felt rad (Jun 2026)
- Remixing A/B Tests — Remix NYC (Apr 2023) https://eligundry.com/talks/remix-ab-testing/
- Redux + Hooks = 🤤 — QueensJS (Feb 2020) https://eligundry.com/talks/redux-hooks
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- Dotfiles For Fun & Profit — The New York City Vim Meetup (Jun 2017) https://eligundry.com/talks/dots/

## Education

- **Kent State University** — Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Incomplete) (2009 - 2016)
  Bounced around to several Ohio colleges doing computer science before dropping out in 2015 to "go pro" at Croscon.
  Activities & Societies: HacKSU
- **Wayne County Schools Career Center** — Interactive Media Cohort (Aug 2007 - Jun 2009)
  High school vocational program where I taught myself the basics of web development and graphic design.
- **Orrville High School** (2006 - 2009)
  Activities & Societies: Tennis

## Awards

- Eagle Scout (Jun 2006)

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Code Nation (Oct 2022 - Jun 2023)
  Teacher Led Program Volunteer

## Languages

- English (native)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/eligundry
- Website: http://eligundry.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eligundry
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/eligundry