Systems Software Engineer with production experience in Rust. I specialize in open-source leadership, scaling geospatial platforms, and designing custom RISC architectures.
Until Every Cage is Empty Lead Software Engineer & Maintainer A full-stack, open-source geospatial platform for animal rights.
- Scale: Serves over 54,000 documented facilities to 3,000+ monthly users (activists, journalists, and researchers).
- Tech: High-performance RESTful API in Rust (Axum), Python ETL pipelines, and Leaflet.js.
- Impact: Secured a seed grant from the Pollination Project and crowdfunded global support.
Fish Defender Mapping Tool Contract Software Engineer
- Overview: A serverless mapping application to visualize fish-friendly dive locations.
- Tech: End-to-end engineered using Cloudflare Workers (serverless backend) and Google Sheets API integration.
RISC-V Inspired CPU & Toolchain
- Core: Designed a 4-stage pipelined, 8-bit CPU from first principles in a pure logic-gate environment.
- Toolchain: Developed a custom assembler, emulator, and VS Code extension from scratch in Rust for a novel Turing-complete ISA.
Full-Stack IoT Telemetry Platform
- Embedded: Authored a bare-metal sensor driver in Embedded Rust (no_std) for the ESP32.
- Backend: Engineered a Python Flask API with SQLite to ingest high-frequency real-time data.
The AI Roundtable An AI-powered app that turns any topic into a dynamic, two-host podcast.
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- Portfolio: eliperez.dev
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/eliperez-dev/
- My Rust Crates: crates.io/users/counterspecies
- Email: eliperez0024@gmail.com

