ELIJAH PARKER

Fullstack Platform Engineer. ~3 years owning production infra for multi-service SaaS. Self-hosting K8s since 2022, agentic development since 2026.

Work Experience


Fullstack DevOps & SRE Software Engineer, AppRabbit

  • Own platform architecture: 3M req/day, 112k users, 2,041 tenant apps.
  • Architected an agentic harness: fanout decomposition, gates, event replay.
  • Cut ~150M Firestore reads/day & optimized reads using Redis caching.
  • Platform-neutral message relay on Socket.IO and Redis, with client SDKs.
  • Built a RTMPS/HLS autoscaling live-video plane on Fly & Cloudflare R2.
  • Fleet-wide ORM migration; multi-region Postgres cut AU reads to ~100ms.
  • Instrumented 9 services with OpenTelemetry; eliminated a $4k overage.
  • Automated iOS/Android releases to 16 concurrent builds per 15 min.
  • Integrated Stripe to manage customer subscriptions and billing.
  • Designed a durable workflow engine with deploy-resumable runs.
  • Tenant page platform: versioned drafts, edge serving, custom domains.

Software Engineer Intern, Podium

  • Built a fullstack React and Express app for QA data, as solo developer.
  • Modularized API testing resources as project lead.
  • Developed automated end to end UI & API tests.
  • Improved performance of core QA services by 20%.

Projects


Minecluster Minecraft servers on Kubernetes — Helm charts, RBAC, autoscaling, RCON. dunemask.net/minecluster
Lion Turtle Mobile-shell platform — a Flutter shell wrapping any Vite + React app. dunemask.net/lion-turtle
Voxelcraft Java voxel sandbox — built in 24 hours with a friend, before college. dunemask.net/voxelcraft

Training/Education


Computer Science, Brigham Young University

B.S. in Computer Science: Software Engineering

Full Stack Web Development, Bottega devCamp

Certificate of Competency — Python, databases, systems analysis, and web development.

Cyber Security and Networking, AFA's CyberPatriot

2nd place, state networking security challenge. Ubuntu security policies and PAM, networking, and init systems.