# Elgin D. > Small Business Systems Engineer → Modernizing Main Street | Harvard ’19. Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elgin I design modern systems and operations that help small businesses grow predictably and sustainably. My work sits at the intersection of software engineering, operational design, and economic mobility. I’m creating a modular, AI-powered operating system for solopreneurs, local service businesses, and underrepresented founders—starting with the overlooked operational pain points that quietly limit growth. After five years designing and engineering production systems, I’ve seen the same pattern again and again: great people stuck inside outdated tools. So I’m building the infrastructure I wish existed. My work blends: Automation & AI to eliminate friction Design thinking to keep tools intuitive Systems architecture to support real-world businesses Economic equity to ensure the best tools reach the people who need them most I believe the systems we build shape the opportunities people have. And software is the most scalable way to reshape Main Street. Current focus areas: Small business modernization + operational turnarounds AI-augmented business audits Reinventing city-level infrastructure through tech Early-stage acquisitions in service-based businesses If you’re building in this space—or you’re a founder, investor, or city leader exploring modernization—send me a message. I’m always open to conversations that move small business forward. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer and UX Designer @ SubjectWell Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 ● Independently architected and developed a patient management product with VueJS, Jest, AWS Lambda, and a Ruby on Rails backend, deployed using an AWS Amplify CI/CD monorepo structure ● Created, presented, and implemented a Jest-based unit-testing framework in VueJS, complete with 180+ tests across an existing application ● Designed, researched, specified, presented, and implemented the User Interface and User Experience (Figma) documentation, and VueJS code for a fast-paced B2C project for Pfizer, with a user pool of 100,000 patients ● Created a CI/CD pipeline for frontend applications to be easily deployed and tested through AWS Amplify ● Contribute to several existing full-stack codebases in VueJS and Ruby on Rails on a fast-paced feature team ### Software Engineer @ TeleVet Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States ● Led the User Experience/Product Design and Frontend Development for two Stripe-based payment-processing features, which successfully processed over $1.5M in the first two month of their releases (React & Typescript), and also reversed the revenue trajectory of the company from negative over the two prior months to +33%, +35%, and then +40% in the next three months ● Led accessibility and usability discussions and UI/UX implementation in launching on a quick-to-market, B2B and B2C React + Typescript-based enterprise web applications, each with 1,000+ monthly clients ● Initiated and led a company-wide “Town Hall” on racial issues in America ● Implemented automated framework testing with Playwright and Github Actions ### Independent Game Designer, Developer, and Artist @ Winter Hearth Studios Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Fully designed, developed, and shipped 5 independent mobile applications; Designing graphic assets and layouts for games in Figma, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and Affinity Designer; Full developed and designed Foxy Birds (Android, iOS) in Unity3D; Fully developed and designed an Ionic-Firebase mobile app (iOS) with 3,000+ installs ### Podcaster @ Winter Hearth Studios Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 The people we meet, the love we share, and the stories we tell to capture it all shape the very nature of our humanity. Driven by a creative spirit and boundless curiosity, artist and designer Elgin Davis draws us into a deeper understanding of our own humanity through unfiltered musings about the world we live in. More Human brings the raw power of emotion to hard topics, ranging from mental health to emotional intelligence, and from fear of failure to what it really looks like to live a hyper-meaningful existence here on earth. Check us out wherever you listen to podcasts! ### User Experience Designer @ trivago Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Düsseldorf Area, Germany Designed new and improved mobile features for the trivago iOS and Android apps using Sketch, and Abstract pipelines; Created several feature roadmaps to specify forms and functions of the trivago iOS app; Collaborated with a design team to create effective solutions to product challenges; Contributed to a Design System and workflow for iOS and Android development; Delivered high-fidelity prototypes to the development team; Implemented features in the software engineering team in Swift ### Software Engineer @ Life.Church Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Edmond, Oklahoma Developed web-based analytics applications with React JS, Redux, and Highcharts; Set foundation for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines for the production website using the Google Cloud Engine and Kubernetes and providing Docker image implementations; Implemented UX/UI changes and feature additions in HAML, CoffeeScript, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Slim, and YAML; Configured CI/CD pipelines for the Life.Church mobile Android and iOS applications; Created microservices for a large-scale system in Ruby on Rails; Designed a new web desktop interface in Figma for the Church Online host platform ### Quality Assurance Developer @ OpenClassrooms Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Paris Area, France Developed 10+ automated Web Acceptance and REST API tests with Codeception, Webdriver and Symphony on PHPStorm; Wrote technical content and co-produced an introductory course on the platform; Translated written course-creation workflows from French to English for the platform; Reviewed and edited pedagogical content for new educational courses and Master’s-degree-level learning paths ## Education ### B.A. Computer Science in Computer Science Harvard University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elgin-davis --- Source: https://flows.cv/elgin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elgin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22