Eli Thorkelson
Principal Software Engineer at Workday
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Thorkelson is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building web and back-end systems, currently crafting solutions at Workday. He brings an uncommon blend of rigorous academic training—a PhD in cultural anthropology—and hands-on engineering, having transitioned from research and lecturing roles into software development. His background includes web applications work at the University of Chicago, back-end engineering for agencies, and research fellowships that honed skills in complex problem framing and interdisciplinary collaboration. Based in Georgia, Eli combines analytical depth with practical engineering practices to deliver thoughtful, user-aware systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Anthropology at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Anthropology at University of Chicago
Github Skills (42)
rfc9
emberjs8
ember-cli8
appserver8
application-server8
nodejs7
ember7
webserver7
data-loading6
fetch6
solr6
ruby6
restful5
api-blueprint5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
decasia/standardize-filenames-osx
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
decasia/ethnographic-methods-2018
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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