Consultant: Elin

Steady as a rock.

Elin brings a lot of stability to the Underjord team dynamic. She brings clear and honest opinions with tact and empathy.

Her current work as a developer with us was built on top of a wide foundation of Linux admin and IT work doing operations, running IT departments and getting into DevOps. After a decade of operations work she decided to move on to software development. She went to web dev school for just a bit before she came into contact with Underjord. We found an opportunity to bring her on and she has worked with us since 2021.

As we’ve worked it has been very clear that she learns fast, understands well and communicates when things get unclear. From new CI systems (Gitlab) to entirely new languages (Elm, Dart) and new frameworks (Flutter, Nerves) she has been quick on her feet, productive and enthusiastic.

People who meets her often get a sense of effortless and relaxed competence. That is an accurate estimate.

Specific work

  • Implemented Postgres-based full-text search with Ecto and Phoenix Channels, end-to-end.
  • Retrofit an event-sourcing style tool for enabling version control on top of some very mutable data structures in Ecto and Phoenix.
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines for a client SaaS product development project
  • Set up deployments.
  • Trained team in deployments.
  • Supported client through system hand-off as in-house team was brought in.

Accolades & testimonials

"Elin joined us to work on an embedded project using Nerves, Elixir and Flutter. She came up to speed and made valuable contributions to both the UI and a sensor driver in no time."
- Frank Hunleth, SmartRent

"I had the immense pleasure to work with Elin as I was stepping into the development of an existing product with a large codebase. Elin proved to be very capable of coming up with quick and elegant ways to integrate new features utilizing new concepts, whilst always being very curious about how to improve the overall readability of the existing parts. Elin very calmly explained many aspects of the codebase to me, in a mood that was always pleasant and well structured. She also authored documentation that we still rely upon to date. More importantly, the positive attitude of Elin in calls makes working together as a team a part of the day that I was always looking forward to. If she works on her house remodeling as she does with a keyboard, I trust the result to be very sturdy while making the work with sledgehammers equally enjoyable."
- Pierre Martin, Tech Lead

Primary tech

  • Elixir
  • Phoenix
  • Ecto
  • Nerves

Accidental tech

  • Flutter
  • Elm
  • GitLab CI
  • Grafana
  • Fly.io
  • GraphQL