Summary
Kirk Elliott is a Senior Front End Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, scalable interfaces that make complex systems usable—most recently crafting the camera UI and front end for IonQ’s next-generation quantum computing stack. He has led front-end modernization at Oracle, deployed third-party JavaScript used by billions monthly, and shipped native mobile SDKs and web tooling across startups and enterprise products. Comfortable with low-level data handling (e.g., visualizing raw Uint16Array camera data on HTML canvas) as well as large-scale component and cloud integrations, he bridges experimental hardware teams and production cloud software. A former adjunct professor and long-time app developer, Kirk pairs practical teaching experience with a history of shipping across diverse platforms and build systems. Off the beaten path, he describes his aesthetic as “boring is the new sexy,” reflecting a preference for reliable, maintainable solutions over flashy throwaway code.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ball State University
English, Russian, javascript