Hi, I'm Elijah

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I’m currently a Tech Lead at Deel leading the analytics engineering function and building a data platform team. In the most recent past, I built the data function at Legalpad.io, which was acquired by Deel.

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Focused on hiring great engineers, building new real-time infra for customer use cases, and driving the vision for a standardized metrics layer at Deel.

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Quick Bio

  • Today
    • Building a data platform team
  • 2023 Q3-Q4
    • Co-lead 15 person Analytics Engineering team at Deel
    • Building a 4-person Payroll Analytics team
    • Refactoring core infrastructure for scale
  • 2023 Q2
    • Led analytics engineering for Platform product vertical at Deel, supporting 16 product teams, 60+ engineers, and 5+ product analysts
    • Building Python micro services that make the data team more efficient / scalable / reliable, as we grow from 15 to 30+ team members in 2023, supporting more than 60 product teams and 20 operational teams.
  • 2023 Q1
    • Lead all analytics for Mobility business unit and Mobility product teams at Deel as an Analytics Engineer
  • 2021-2022
    • Built data function at Legalpad
    • Equipped Legalpad’s operational teams with tooling that allows them to leverage analytics and data in their day-to-day work
    • Built ML / OCR driven workflows to eliminate data entry for customers
  • 2021 - 2019
    • Made tons of huge mistakes in database design and modeling along the way...learned how not to do it and developed some opinions on how to do it better
    • Taught myself basic Excel, then more advanced modeling in Excel, then SQL, and then R
  • 2019 - 2017
    • Got a job where I presented to and interviewed clients every day...eventually learned to enjoy and even look forward to it
    • stumbled into PM’ing a company website and internal application rebuild…made too many mistakes to count, like a payments bug which charged customers multiple times…learned lots of hard won lessons that continue to resonate today
  • 2016
    • BS Journalism and Poli Sci, Abilene Christian University, Dec 2016
    • Graduated with zero analytical skills and terrible presentation skills

Interests

Personal:

  • Cooking
  • No Gi jiu jitsu / grappling (training at B Team)
  • Being outside in the sun

Professional:

  • Writing efficient SQL
  • Connecting operational systems so that customers and ops teams never enter data twice
  • Delivering analytical and data outputs that increase the bottom line
  • Delighting internal teams by helping to define, scope, and solve cross-org problems
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