Eliot Hertenstein

Eliot Hertenstein

Developer in Berkeley, CA

Projects

Ongoing

Find California DMV appointments faster. Create notifications for surprise openings.

2024

Moved the Assembly Builders site away from Squarespace and onto Statamic, complete with a total site redesign.

2024

📰 Making the news more accessible, interactive, and interesting for over 40k monthly visitors! Doubled annual web traffic (150k → 300k visitors per year). Migrated over 3,000 articles from Wordpress to Statamic. The Jacket is one of the only student newspapers in the country using a fully custom theme, and is highly ranked nationally by the NSPA and CSPA.

2023

✨ Tracking historical OpenAI model status and latency

2022

🚄 Helped to rewrite Amtraker, an API for tracking Amtrak trains which serves ~3M monthly requests. The new API uses Bun, a new JavaScript runtime that improves performance and request speed by over 3x when compared to node.

2022

🚊 In preparation for a trip across the US on Amtrak's California Zephyr, I build the "Rail Map," a way to discover railroad crossings and rail bridges, track Amtrak and Caltrain, and more.

Side Projects

2024

🔥 An archive of fire alarms at BHS

2024

📊 Allowing Berkeley High students to contribute their high school experience, and creating data-visuals with crowdsourced results.

2023

📝 Read and write to Google Forms with a free API!

2023

🌎 Launched a rework of my personal website

2023

📊 Scraped IBO grade information from PDFs, and made an interface to display it nicely, with some fun data visualizations! More planned...

2023

📝 A directory of times, dates, and locations of IB & AP exams at BHS

2023

⏳ the world's most minimalist pomodoro timer

2023

🕰️ BHS countdown clock

2023

📷 Added a responsive photos gallery to my personal website

2022
Rain in Google Calendar
2022

🗺️ Map of Berkeley High

2022

🕝 Super simple year progress indicator

2022

🦠 Visualize the impact of COVID-19

2022

🚉 Interactive BART map that adjusts distance based on travel time

2022

🌐 My original personal website. Lots of scroll based animations.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Remote

🏗️ Working on numerous projects in the AI / ML / LLM space.

2022 — Now
Berkeley, CA

📰 Making the news more accessible, interactive, and interesting!

2023 — Now
New York, NY

👨‍💻 Improving web presence for the US' only fully student run Parliamentary Debate League.

2020 — Now

🌯 Helping local business expand their platform

2023 — Now
Varsity Captain & Web Manager at BHS Speech & Debate
Berkeley, CA
2021 — 2022
Berkeley, CA

🗞 Helping create stories that matter

2020 — 2022
Berkeley, CA

✏️ Writing for BHS

Education

2024 — Now
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
2019 — 2024
Berkeley High School
Berkeley, CA

Awards

2023

🎓 Top 8 in the nation in Parliamentary Debate

2023

Parliamentary Debate

2022
2022

Parliamentary Debate

2021

🪪 Spoke about how students are surveilled by schools with tracking technology like Go Guardian

Volunteering

2019 — Now
CIT (Counselor in Training) at Bay Club
San Francisco, CA
2023 — 2023
Judge at NYPDL

Occasional Judge for NYPDL and NYPDL-associated tournaments.

2021 — 2022
Music Mentor at BUSD BAO
Willard Middle School
2018 — 2019
CIT (Counselor in Training) at Monkey Business
Berkeley, CA

Contact

GitHub
Twitter