Micah Elliott
Senior Lead Clojure Developer at Dividend Finance
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Elliott is a seasoned software leader and Senior Lead Clojure Developer, currently shaping back-end systems at Dividend Finance in Tucson, AZ, with over a decade of hands-on backend experience. He blends engineering rigor with product focus, empowering teams with tooling, documentation, unit tests, and automated debt reduction across domains from pricing to email systems. Notable contributions include adopting correctness tools like Kondo, Codox, and open-source utilities such as dbdoc and Captain, as well as optimizing GitHub Actions and building a test-generation tool from spreadsheet use-case data. A former co-founder and CTO at Membean, Micah led multiple teams, tackled NLP-driven content tooling, and built infrastructure to scale services for millions of students, underscoring entrepreneurial leadership. His technical breadth spans Clojure, Kafka, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and microservices, with experience across fintech, health, education, and NLP domains, and a track record of mentoring 20+ developers and bridging product and engineering.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Oregon Health & Science University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (146)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MicahElliott/dotfiles
Apr 2012 - Dec 2021
Contributions:118 commits, 35 pushes in 9 years 9 months
MicahElliott/captain
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A simpler approach to git-hook management
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 112 pushes in 2 years
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