I'm Eli
Professional chaos-untangler by day, incorrigible tinkerer by night.
About
I'm drawn to messy problems, the kind with competing constraints, incomplete information, and no obvious answer. My job is turning them into systems people can understand and trust.
At WAVV I build intelligent products across telecommunications, automation, optimization, and applied AI. Before this I led WAVV's development team, and that shaped how I engineer today: start with the real problem, keep the solution as simple as it can be, involve the people closest to it, and build for the realities of production.
I'm most energized by the work that sits between product and engineering, turning ambitious ideas into dependable systems, helping teams adopt new technology thoughtfully, and creating clarity amid complexity.
Work
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AI Systems Engineer · WAVV
Designing intelligent systems across AI, automation, optimization, and core product infrastructure.
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Development Team Lead
Led development of a platform spanning calling, messaging, billing, compliance, and integrations.
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Senior Back End Engineer
Built features across the telecom stack while shaping how the team shipped them.
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Back End Engineer
Built the foundations of the platform in Node.js, FreeSWITCH, PostgreSQL, and Linux.
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Full Stack Engineer · Freelance
Serverless applications, APIs, and custom integrations across AWS and GCP.
Selected work at WAVV
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Smart Rotation
An automated number-management system that monitors number health, balances usage, manages capacity, and favours stronger-performing numbers to improve calling outcomes.
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AI Assistants
Assistants that help customers understand their activity, navigate the product, and work through complex telecom compliance processes.
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Voice Intelligence
Features that summarize conversations, identify call outcomes, surface coaching insights, and improve how calls get handled.
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Operational Automation
Turning operational data into automated decisions, reporting, and safeguards across number reputation, compliance, and call performance.
What I work with
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash
Platform
Node.js, PostgreSQL, Linux, FreeSWITCH
Cloud
GCP, AWS, OpenAI, Groq
Focus
Applied AI, backend development, DevOps
Now
Running AI models on my own hardware rather than someone else's: local transcription, local generation, and working out where the quality actually falls over.
Otherwise: terminal tooling and dotfiles I will never finish tuning, a homelab that keeps growing, and the occasional midnight tweak that has no business existing.