Elan Medoff

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Skills

  • Typescript
  • Javascript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React
  • Next.js / Next.js V13
  • React Query
  • Redux
  • Node.js
  • Deno
  • Bash
  • Lua
  • Redux Toolkit
  • MongoDB
  • Prisma
  • Git
  • OAuth
  • Java
  • Python
  • OCaml
  • Ruby on Rails

Experience

Software Engineer (Wealthfront)

  • Collaborated with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and project managers to launch several flagship investment products
  • Standardized data fetching patterns in the web codebase with React Query and number of custom utilities and wrappers; led the migration to adopt these new tools, improving perceived data loading speed and reducing code complexity significantly
  • Conducted technical interviews for prospective web engineers, assessing their coding and conceptual skills
  • Participated in the web on-call rotation, troubleshooting and resolving various production issues and ensuring a high-quality user experience

Software Engineer Intern (Wealthfront)

  • Renewed an older landing page with a sophisticated, page-long scrolling animation with several different stages, collaborating with designers to create a visually appealing and interactive experience

Personal projects

  • A personal tech blog with 15+ articles on various topics such as programming with React, Next.js, and Typescript, customizing NeoVim into a fully-fledge IDE, and setting up continuous integration
  • Includes OAuth with Github (manually implemented), server-side data fetching with client-side optimistic updates, shareable URLs with automatic scrolling, and more
  • Built with Next.js, Typescript, Tailwindcss, Prisma, React Query, Framer Motion, and Playwright
  • Created an ocarina educational site with a focus on practicing ocarina scales; included features such as a built-in metronome, shareable URLs to resume page-state, and more
  • Built with Next.js v13, Typescript, Tailwindcss, and Reach UI as the main technologies

Education

Johns Hopkins University

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (3.83)