Elliot West
About Elliot West
Elliot West is a Staff Engineer currently working at Dremio, with a background in software engineering and architecture that spans over two decades. He has held various positions at notable companies, including Expedia Group and Wayfair, and has contributed to significant projects in data management and streaming technologies.
Work at Dremio
Elliot West currently serves as a Staff Engineer at Dremio, a position he has held since 2023. His role involves working remotely from London, England, United Kingdom. At Dremio, he contributes to the development and enhancement of data management solutions, leveraging his extensive background in software engineering and architecture.
Previous Experience
Prior to his current position, Elliot West worked at StreamNative as a Senior Platform Engineer for nine months in 2022. He also held the role of Senior Staff Engineer at Wayfair for three months in 2022. His experience includes a four-year tenure at Expedia Group as a Principal Architect, where he worked in a hybrid environment from 2018 to 2022. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Java Developer at Last.fm and held various positions in software development at Sift, Elsevier, and Merck Sharp and Dohme.
Education and Expertise
Elliot West studied at University College London (UCL), where he earned a Master of Research (MRes) in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Graphics, and Simulation from 1996 to 1997. He also obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from 1993 to 1996. His educational background supports his expertise in software development and data architecture.
Technical Contributions
Elliot West has developed significant technical solutions throughout his career. He created a system for federating heterogeneous, large-scale data lakes into a single virtual lake, which contributed to the concept of 'data mesh'. Additionally, he engineered a global streaming platform utilizing Apache Kafka in a server-less manner and developed a tool for computing test coverage of SQL code.