Eliott Humes

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Projects

Grimoire

A Linux-native mod manager for discovering, installing, and managing Deadlock mods.

I got into Deadlock's cosmetic modding scene and immediately hit the tooling problem: using mods meant juggling archives, game directories, load order, and file conflicts by hand, and it was even worse on Linux.

Grimoire handles all of it from one library: browse GameBanana, install in a click, then enable, reorder, group, and remove mods with file-level conflict resolution. A character-aware locker keeps global and per-hero cosmetics straight.

  • 30K+ downloads
  • 500+ daily users
  • 1.5K+ weekly users
  • TypeScript
  • Electron
  • React
  • SQLite
  • Three.js
  • Tailwind CSS

vpkmerge

A pure-Rust toolkit for reading and editing Deadlock's Source 2 assets.

Building Grimoire exposed a second bottleneck: importing models or recoloring textures and ability effects meant scattered documentation and more than 100 GB of supporting tools and assets.

vpkmerge replaces that chain with a Rust library and CLI. It merges, splits, inspects, and edits Valve Pak files; resolves asset collisions; decodes Source 2 textures and binary data; exports compiled models to glTF; and powers Grimoire's one-click editing tools.

  • Rust
  • Cargo
  • Source 2
  • VPK
  • CLI
  • GitHub Actions

Skills

Analytics

  • Regression & classification
  • Time-series analysis
  • Customer segmentation & lifetime value
  • Utilization & capacity
  • Reporting & dashboards

Languages

  • TypeScript · JavaScript
  • Python · R
  • SQL
  • Rust
  • Kotlin · Dart

Engineering

  • Data pipelines (ETL & sync)
  • Record linkage / fuzzy matching
  • API integration & discovery
  • MCP / Anthropic SDK
  • GraphQL · Node.js · Apps Script
  • Electron · React · Tauri
  • Linux · Git · LaTeX

Operations

  • Master data management
  • P&L management
  • Inventory systems
  • Distributor & vendor management
  • Supply chain logistics
  • Process design & docs

Chronology

Experience

Apr 2026 – Present

Solutions Architect Intern / Consultant

Event Party Rentals · Escondido, CA

  • Lead data and analytics for a TapGoods-based rental operation, including a read-only Apps Script that syncs inventory data nightly to the client's master sheet and provides staff with a daily health check.
  • Replaced one-off report scripts with a DuckDB-over-parquet warehouse; deliver recurring reports on utilization, inventory valuation, deadstock, and capital productivity.
  • Deliver customer segmentation and lifetime-value modeling (k-means / GMM, BG/NBD + Gamma-Gamma) on top of the warehouse.
  • Built a TypeScript MCP server exposing the vendor's GraphQL API to Claude as 15 read-only analytics tools; maintain ADRs, C4 diagrams, and the client handoff docs.

Feb 2025 – May 2025

Founder

Snowflask · Temecula, CA

  • Sold international Pokémon cards via livestream: $40,000+ revenue in three months ($186/hr average) by buying against international pricing gaps.
  • Built the logistics chain, suppliers and freight forwarders in China and Japan, and ran sourcing, fulfillment, and inventory end to end.

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024

Bar Manager

Makai Island Kitchen · Santa Cruz, CA

  • Ran the bar program at an award-winning tiki bar where alcohol was 38% of $4M gross annual revenue; managed 15+ distributors and grew the rum list past 200 bottles.
  • Wrote Python tools against POS data to track inventory usage and cost variance; used time-series analysis of sales to plan orders.
  • Started as a barback in 2021; promoted four times in under two years.

Education

Expected Dec 2026

B.S. Business Analytics

California State University San Marcos

May 2025

A.S. Business Administration

Mt. San Jacinto College

Recognition

2023

Bartender of the Year

Santa Cruz Sentinel Readers' Choice Awards

Contact

humeseliott@gmail.com