Eliot Walker Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Created technical strategy leading to successful zero-to-ones of Lyft Navigation, Parking, Roadside Assistance, and Vehicle Service products. Drove execution by leading large multi-pod teams and driving work-streams across organizations. Develop new leaders through consistent mentorship and sponsorship. Direct technical investments across hundreds of engineers. Key member of promotion/calibration committees for over 5 years.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Delivered a scalable strategy to up-level 5 key partnerships underpinning 3 rider-facing products.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Tech Lead for the Mapping Org. Rallied team around several architectural shifts including leveraging streaming, migrating to a time-series database as a low-cost spatial-temporal index, and rewriting from Python to Go, saving $XX millions.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Tech Lead for the Locations team, responsible for the critical platform that ingests and serves real time GPS and telemetry from drivers. Led the incorporation of mapping algorithms to improve accuracy, which led to improved ETA accuracy and rider/driver matches.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built Express Pay, enabling drivers to cash out earnings on-demand. Designed and built Lyft's billing platform, which is still in use. Built Lyft's first accounting data warehouse, enabling financial audits in preparation for IPO.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Develop and maintain massively scaled services for processing orders of digital products (Kindle ebooks, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon Mp3, etc)• Design, scope and implement new features with automated unit, integration and end-to-end tests• Scripted widely used internal tools to simplify code reviews and allocate hardware• Ramp-up new-hires and interns on team services and internal tools• Present multi-team tech talks to give background on new projects and explain design• Perform technical interviews of applicants for software engineering roles

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Collaborated with 8 person team to realize a new generation of order processing services.• Engaged with teams across Amazon to develop a cross-cutting design to upgrade order calculation, tax reporting, and accounting abilities essential to international expansion.• Performed extensive load testing on 12+ Java services to guarantee performance during peak load.• Mentored team intern, helping her to develop and reach project goals while building dependency injection and unit testing fundamentals using Guice and Mockito.

• Elected by the student body to effectively budget the $2.3 million yearly revenue of Student Union.• Negotiated the hiring of a technology coordinator to streamline Student Union web services.• Trained over 250 student group treasurers in financial policies and effective budgeting.• Assisted student groups with financing for their initiatives through 8 weekly office hours.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Added drag and drop functionality to version control GUI application using Qt and C++.• Met aggressive goals to flesh out major version control actions in the same application.• Refined coding skills through stringent code reviews by other full time engineers.

• Developed a probabilistic face detection system using the Robot Operating System (ROS).• Programmed a network application for remote control of a robotic hand using a data glove.• Planned and developed a visual interface for electrocorticograph data collection from epilepsy patients.

• Completed photo editing projects of over 1,000 images under strict deadlines.• Composed dozens of high-quality panoramas used in company marketing materials.• Designed 15 page instruction manual for stitching 360° panoramas.