I'm Elias, a Principal Software Engineer at HubSpot, where I've spent the last decade building and leading the infrastructure that keeps HubSpot running.
My work sits at the intersection of hard technical problems and the humans who solve them. Good infrastructure isn't just about keeping systems running. It's about giving engineers the clarity and confidence to move fast without fear.
I have an unusual blend of highly analytic decision-making and deep empathy. I'm most effective when I can advocate simultaneously for the customer and for the engineers serving them. Outside HubSpot I mentor engineers on MentorCruise and build side projects that scratch a personal itch.
Hands-on technical leader responsible for all of infrastructure at HubSpot, spanning organizational best practices, reliability, foundational infrastructure, datastores, and more.
Led teams across monitoring, logging, tracing, our Service Maturity model, and automation supporting incident response.
Ran the observability teams, building high-performance software to monitor tremendous scale at the intersection of quality, analytics, and human needs.
Led the platform monitoring and alerting team. Focused on reducing developer friction, prompt failure notification, and dynamic error detection.
Sales infrastructure: low-latency two-way email sync, an internal feature gating service, and a centralized OAuth manager for the sales suite.
Progressive feature rollout infrastructure, Office 365 email sync, NLP applications for bulk email, and HubSpot's Java language extensions.
May – Aug 2015
Visiting Researcher · Lausanne, Switzerland
Discrete optimization research focused on scheduling problems for multi-resource jobs run over networks.
May – Aug 2014
Software Engineering Intern · Austin, TX
Built a distributed, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable decentralized ticketing service from the ground up, eliminating a processing pipeline SPOF.
May – Aug 2013
Collaborators Intern · Hillsboro, OR
Led a graduate team investigating MIMO detection algorithms for beyond-4G wireless. Developed a novel detection algorithm; paper accepted at IEEE SiPS 2014, two patents filed.
B.S. Computer Science · 2011–2015 · Graduated with Honors
Honors thesis on fair allocation (game theory and resource distribution). Member of Phi Beta Kappa (liberal arts and sciences honor society) and Phi Sigma Iota (international foreign languages honor society).
IEEE SiPS: Novel MIMO Detection for Beyond-4G
Co-authored paper on novel MIMO detection algorithms for beyond-4G wireless communications. Two related patents filed.
Honors Thesis: Fair Allocation
Year-long research project on fair allocation and resource distribution, fulfilling CMU School of Computer Science honors graduation requirements.
Phi Beta Kappa
Elected to the oldest academic honor society for liberal arts and sciences in the United States.
Engineering Leadership Mentor, MentorCruise
Certified mentor specializing in engineering leadership transitions, career growth at scale companies, and technical decision-making.