FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person * HERON POPI (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O ELLIE MAE, INC. 4420 ROSEWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 500 (Street) PLEASANTON CA 94588 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 05/30/2018	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol ELLIE MAE INC [ ELLI ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) X Other (specify below) Interim CFO / Interim CFO	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	5,005	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	/S/ Popi Heron	06/06/2018
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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The undersigned, as a Section 16 reporting person of Ellie Mae, 
Inc. (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints each of 
Jonathan Corr, Brian Brown, Boris Kogan, and LeeAnn Linck,
signing singly, with full power of substitution, the 
undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to: 

(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the 
undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and 
Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments 
thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to 
obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make 
electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by 
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any 
rule or regulation of the SEC;  

(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the 
undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of the 
Company, and/or 10% holder of the Company's capital stock, 
Forms 3, 4, and 5 and any amendments thereto in accordance 
with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(as amended) and the rules thereunder;  

(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the 
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete 
and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute 
any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form 
with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and  
(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection 
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, 
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required 
by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed 
by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to 
this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain 
such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve 
in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.  

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact 
full power and authority to do and perform any and every act 
and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done 
in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, 
as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or 
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution 
or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such 
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or 
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of 
this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. 
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, 
in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is 
not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's 
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended).
      
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until 
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with 
respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in 
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the 
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the Company and 
the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of 
Attorney to be executed as of this 1st day of June, 2018.


			Signature: /s/ Popi Heron
			Printed Name: Popi Heron

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