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Caleb Beers, Senior Elixir / Phoenix Engineer (Remote ‑ US / UTC‑4)

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[Freelancer] — Caleb Beers, Senior Elixir / Phoenix Engineer (Remote ‑ US / UTC‑4)


Who I Am

  • Location: Columbus, Ohio (UTC‑4) – full‑time remote; happy to overlap US/EU hours
  • Stack: Elixir & OTP • Phoenix + LiveView • PostgreSQL • GraphQL/Absinthe • Docker • AWS/Fly.io • CI/CD
  • Open‑source: Author of Periscope (LiveView plugin) · frequent ElixirForum lurker/helper
  • Teaching: 5 yrs tutoring devs in Elixir, Linux, regex, finite math – clear documentation & pairing come standard

What I’ve Built

Year Project Tech & Impact
2024‑25 Checkpoint Software – MDR tooling High‑throughput alert pipeline on the BEAM; OpenAI‑powered NLP triage
2023 Vianet Roommate Match Green‑field PETL marketplace, shipped solo from Figma to production
2022‑23 Verias Payroll PETAL CRUD system; custom GenServer session layer, >95 % code authored
2025‑ongoing CAQue (personal) Event‑queue engine in Elixir; back‑pressure, telemetry, AI‑driven routing
Earlier Launch Scout, Arid Software, assorted non‑profits PETL features, refactors, tests; full‑stack mentoring

AI & Elixir

  • Integrated OpenAI APIs for semantic search, auto‑classification, and chat‑style user flows
  • Designed OTP behaviours for mass concurrent data ingestion

Engagement Options

Model Capacity Ideal Work
Contract 10 – 30 hrs / week Green‑field MVPs, performance tuning, AI integration
Contract‑to‑Hire / FT Open to compelling missions Scaling Phoenix, GraphQL back‑ends, DevOps ownership

What You Get

  • Extreme ownership – I’ve solo‑shipped apps; you hand me a problem, I return a running service
  • Performance first – concurrency, telemetry, benchmarking baked in
  • Clear comms – async‑friendly updates, lucid docs, and screen‑share pairing when helpful

Contact

:speech_balloon: DM or email me if you need an Elixir hand who can plug in AI wisely, architect for scale, and deliver production‑ready code. Looking forward to building something great with the community!

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A few updates:

  1. I now hold a Certified Cloud Practitioner cert from AWS
  2. I now have a portfolio site you can find at http://caleb.beer
AstonJ

AstonJ

Looks good Caleb!

You should consider making your main pic from your site your avatar here too - people hire people, and using a face pic on platforms like this, GH, Twitter, etc, can help you become more memorable/recognisable :023:

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Updated. :smiley:

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