Eli Hooten

Post-acquisition of Codecov by Sentry, I continued to serve as the technical and product leader for Codecov.

While at Sentry I:

• Devised and led Codecov's transition from a single-purpose code coverage tool to a robust code quality platform.
• Scaled the Engineering, Design, and Product functions across multiple product areas, hiring both individual contributors and managers.
• Successfully transitioned a team of 30 to the principles, culture, and working practices of Sentry with minimal attrition.
• Led coordination efforts between Sentry and Codecov teams to launch key product integrations and new features.
• Moved Codecov from closed source to a fully open source company by making all source code and product planning publicly available.

I oversaw all technical operations at Codecov, including engineering, technical support, solutions engineering, and product.

While at Codecov I:

• Executed multiple product and engineering initiatives that grew Codecov's annual recurring revenue multiple times over.
• Helped scale our team from 3 to 30+ globally distributed employees and contractors.
• Directly led the engineering, product, design, solutions engineering, and technical support teams.
• Served as the technical point of contact for stakeholders from many of the world's largest companies.
• Continually set the product roadmap and long-term technical direction.

I was directly responsible for GameWisp's technology and product strategy; overseeing the design and development of core software products for our main customer: gaming livestreamers and content creators.

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

While at GameWisp I:

• Grew a diverse team from 1 to 10 employees and contractors.
• Shipped products that resulted in over $4M in Annual Recurring Revenue.
• Designed and developed performant and cost-effective video upload, encoding, and delivery systems utilized by thousands of active users.
• Developed production quality REST and WebSocket APIs used by hundreds of third-party developers.
• Routinely developed user-facing features and shipped production-ready code.
• Sat GameWisp's board and assisted with the overall strategic direction of the company.

I received my Ph D in 2014 from Vanderbilt Univeristy, studying human-computer interaction and human-robot interaction under Professor Julie A. Adams. My research investigated navigating and wayfinding using digital maps, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

While at Vanderbilt University I:

• Developed design prototypes for academic research using C++/Qt, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript.
• Performed statistical analysis on real-world user interaction data using R.
• Independently designed, sourced, assembled, and flight tested unmanned aerial vehicles and balloons for archaeological field use in South America.
• Supported archaeological survey teams in remote areas of Peru by providing on-site hardware and software development.