Hi👋I'm Elliot.I live in Tel Aviv, where I help build the future.

Since I was a small child I've been fascinated with learning how things work. At nine years old, I started teaching myself to code. By eleven I was building computers, and at fourteen I found my passion in building for the web. I started taking on professional web design clients, and haven't stopped since. What began with freelance consulting has evolved into nearly a decade of professional web development; spanning design, full-stack development, and entrepreneurship. Over the past eight years, I've consulted for clients ranging from startups to retail businesses to publicly traded corporations.

In 2017, I co-founded Octohost, one of the first fully virtualized cloud gaming server providers. As the technical founder, I wore a lot of hats in the organization, designing the website and application UIs and building the entire frontend and backend infrastructure; software for handling payments, automated server provisioning, orchestration, and deployment. As CEO, I oversaw growth and go-to-market, scaling to paying customers, and even raising a small seed round. This early experience taught me that I could build real businesses with an idea and some code.

From there I continued building solutions to the real problems I encountered in my life. At sixteen, I designed and helped build a modern, mobile-friendly gradebook to give students an alternative to my highschool's non-responsive and outdated interface. Our gradebook provided students key features that were missing in the official site, like future grade estimation and GPA calculation. These early projects taught me the value of identifying pain points and shipping solutions quickly.

Both my business and technical expertise deepened at Microsoft, where I worked in small/medium business and government sales. My time at Microsoft gave me insight into enterprise needs and how large organizations acquire technology, while also allowing me to gain more experience in cloud; utilizing employee benefits to build personal projects for scale on the Azure platform.

I studied political science at Washington State University, which lends me a unique insight to how technology is shaping human behavior. Earlier this year, I built and launched IsraelVotes.ca in just 72 hours, mobilizing over a thousand Canadian expat voters in just three weeks.

More recently, I've combined my learnings into founding Alpha Grove Strategies, a research project exploring how conversational AI could be used to analyze and predict political opinions and behavior. Alpha Grove's goal is to understand not just what people think about political issues, but why they think it, using AI to uncover patterns in belief formation and opinion dynamics.

Now living in Tel Aviv, I believe in shipping fast and learning faster. My approach is simple: don't wait for permission to build the future; whether that's creating a better grade portal for high school students, getting people out to vote, or leveraging conversational AI to explore how we understand each other.