Mitchell Elliott

• Designing sustainability-focused hybrid storage architectures to reduce end-to-end carbon impact in data center lifecycles
• Applying life cycle assessment (LCA) to compare storage media by cost, energy consumption, and environmental footprint
• Developing simulation tools to model carbon emissions, performance impacts, and tradeoffs of storage system configurations
• Continuing development of CarbonStream, expanding features and datasets from my M.S. research project

• Created CarbonStream, an end-to-end total cost of carbon analyzer for data centers (M.S. Project)
• Conducted a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of storage technologies to evaluate their environmental impact
• Developed a decision-making framework integrating cost, performance, and sustainability metrics to optimize data storage
• Identified opportunities for hybrid storage architectures that improved energy efficiency by leveraging workload-specific strategies

• 6x Head Teaching Assistant for CSE 130: Principles of Computer System Design (W23, S23, F23, W24, S24, F24)
• Reviewed course material and assisted students with programming assignments and exam prep
• Conducted group discussion sections, created assignments and quizzes, proctored exams, and managed course infrastructure
• Created and maintained an automated CI/CD pipeline for grading programming assignments on GitLab

• Developed a custom MRP system with BOM management using Python, MySQL, Node.js, and React
• Automated manufacturing process management and part tracking
• Developed dashboards and reports using Shopify API data to optimize daily build plans
• Integrated product testing software into a mobile app to streamline the build procedure

• Redesigned and implemented new alert condition policies for several Kubernetes clusters in New Relic
• Eliminated false-positive alert tickets, increasing engineer productivity and improving critical alert visibility
• Created a Jira automation to mute all alerts for a cluster during an upgrade using the New Relic NerdGraph API
• Analyzed log files, reviewed alert incident data, and wrote NRQL queries to investigate cluster outages

• Tutor for CSE 130: Principles of Computer System Design (S22)
• Helped students solve problems and debug code in programming assignments
• Reviewed course material and taught useful programming and debugging techniques to students
• Assisted TAs during discussion sections and office hours

• Migrated a WordPress website from Amazon Lightsail to EC2
• Designed and implemented a three-stage pipeline to streamline development and testing
• Created a secure private network to authenticate users and filter out unwanted web traffic
• Wrote AWS CLI/API Python scripts to sync data and automate the code pipeline

• Created a real-time ticket monitoring system using Power BI and SQL to display data from a ConnectWise database
• Wrote Power BI Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) scripts to create calculated columns and transform data
• Analyzed service ticket data to measure engineer performance and compare customer IT requests
• Built dashboards to highlight key data points, including ticket response and closing times, billable hours, and project time utilization

• Wrote custom batch scripts to automate and speed up PC setups
• Configured new PCs for customers
• Catalogued enterprise data sets
• Documented the company’s internal database

• Performed a comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) of storage technologies to quantify environmental impacts
• Designed an optimization framework integrating cost, performance, and sustainability metrics for storage systems
• Evaluated hybrid storage architectures that enhance energy efficiency using workload‑aware strategies

• Developed a C library implementing a thread‑safe reader‑writer lock for shared resource synchronization
• Enabled N‑way blocking to allow multiple readers concurrent access between waiting writers
• Designed for integration into multithreaded web servers to ensure fair and efficient file access

• Built a Unix‑style in‑memory file system with a tree‑structured hierarchy in C++
• Implemented command support in a shell environment using GNU Core Utilities semantics
• Managed an inode tree with root, directory, and file mappings for efficient operations

• Engineered a deduplicating key‑value block storage system for FreeBSD in C
• Mapped 160‑bit content hashes to unique 4 KiB blocks on a memory‑mounted disk
• Used a superblock for metadata and inodes for efficient data block indexing

• Created a custom Unix shell supporting single/piped commands, I/O redirection, and built‑in functions
• Implemented robust error handling to validate return values and prevent crashes on malformed input
• Designed a modular architecture with token parsing, process management, and redirection logic

• Implemented a multithreaded RPC server in C supporting arithmetic operations and file services
• Designed a custom network protocol using network byte order for client‑server communication
• Added scalability, recursive name resolution, persistent key‑value storage, and fault tolerance

• Developed an LZW compression/decompression tool in C for lossless text and binary file handling
• Enhanced performance via buffered I/O, variable‑length codes, and cross‑system compatibility
• Structured code with modular design, ADTs for tries/word tables, and endian‑aware I/O

• Created a live data interface mapping to the undocumented NHL REST API
• Contributed to data structures, schema designs, and conducted architecture reviews
• Applied modular programming practices to streamline development and testing workflows

Programming

Query & Config

Frameworks & Libraries

Cloud & DevOps

Data & Messaging

Observability & Infra

Tooling & IDEs

Operating Systems