Dries Elliott

Darts-ip provides insights into IP Case Law data from courts worldwide. (Acquired by Clarivate in 2019)

• Moved many microservices to Google Kubernetes Engine and configured autoscaling to better deal with load spikes.
• Simplified the Angular patent entry interface and improved patent number parsing.
• Wrote the CSS for the Simplified Search components.
• Migrated multiple microservices to Java 11 and Spring Boot 2.
• Created a strategy for working with Google Cloud.
• Introduced infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible.
• Deployed Machine Learning APIs built in Python to Google Cloud.
• Migrated the main application from On-Premises servers to Google Cloud.

Build a personal assistant that increases employee engagement by providing company-specific assistive features.

• Design the architecture for product features and customer integrations.
• Created a technical strategy to make the product more scalable by running it on Kubernetes.
• Automated Azure cloud infrastructure using Ansible.
• Designed a chat functionality for users using Twilio.
• Helped extend the existing in-house infrastructure automation tool using Python.

Below is a list of projects that I worked on.

Create an event-driven serverless system that publishes product updates from an internal Product Information Management system to all channels in minutes.

• Helped design the serverless architecture within AWS.
• Built a propagation system in AWS Lambda that walks a graph stored in DynamoDB to propagate events.
• Became the technical lead on the project after one year.
• Introduced a procedure to restore data in our development environment every night using Terraform.

Implement features for the new global e-commerce platform of Bose.

Build an identity and access management solution for the federal government of Belgium.

• Helped design and implement the role-based access control system.
• Implemented new features in Java using the Spring framework.
• Became the technical lead on the project after one year.

Other projects

• Krëfel: Reworked the checkout flow of their website.
• VAB: Created a Solr-based search engine for the road assistance.

International internship in Sweden, where we built a prototype touch-based interface for high-risk surgery assessments in hospitals.