Eli Hooten

• Defined and executed overall technical vision for the product, making key architectural decisions for a scalable, cloud-native platform.
• Built the initial product end-to-end and iterated quickly in response to early customer feedback and product validation.
• Partnered with the founding team on fundraising materials and technical diligence, clearly communicating technical strategy and risks to investors.
• Contributed to company-wide business strategy, aligning product and engineering priorities with long-term growth and defensibility.

• Served as the technical and product leader for Codecov post-acquisition, guiding product strategy and execution within a larger platform organization.
• Devised and led the evolution of Codecov from a code coverage tool into a broader code quality platform, aligning roadmap and architecture with customer needs.
• Scaled Engineering, Design, and Product functions, hiring both individual contributors and managers across multiple product areas to support growth.
• Led team integration and coordinated product launches, ensuring reliable, on-time delivery in a high-growth environment.
• Drove the transition of Codecov from closed source to fully open source, shaping processes, tooling, and community-facing practices.

• Oversaw all technical operations for a rapidly growing developer tools company, setting long-term architectural direction and platform strategy.
• Led engineering, product, technical support, and solutions engineering teams, building cross-functional alignment around roadmap and execution.
• Owned the technical roadmap and maintained product direction to support multiple initiatives that grew ARR and expanded adoption.
• Scaled the organization from 3 to 30+ people globally, building a distributed engineering culture and leadership layer to support continued growth.
• Ensured production systems were reliable and secure while continuing to ship improvements at startup speed.

GameWisp's core technology was acquired by Lightstream in 2019.

• Oversaw technology and product strategy for a subscription and monetization platform used by gaming livestreamers and content creators.
• Grew the team from 1 to 10, hiring and mentoring engineers to deliver new features and maintain a complex production system.
• Designed and developed video upload, encoding, and delivery systems to support high-quality streaming and on-demand content.
• Developed REST and WebSocket APIs that powered the subscriptions platform and were used by a broad ecosystem of external integrations.
• Shipped production-ready code across the stack in a startup environment while contributing to overall company strategic direction.

• Developed software design prototypes for academic research using C++/Qt, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript.
• Performed statistical analysis using R to support research findings and system evaluations.
• Designed and tested unmanned aerial vehicles and balloons for archaeological field use, integrating hardware and software components.
• Supported survey teams in remote Peru with hardware and software setup and troubleshooting.