Summary
Eric Rozell is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with over nine years of experience delivering cloud and platform software at Microsoft and Meta. He currently leads React Native desktop support initiatives at Meta, building on his prior work as a principal engineering manager and SDE lead at Microsoft where he steered distributed teams focused on Azure, DevOps, and Conversational AI. As the maintainer of the react-native-windows open source project, he built a vibrant community around it, which has nearly 6,000 GitHub stars and enables cross-platform reuse of React Native code for UWP and WPF. He has led remote teams across the United States and Canada, collaborating with product teams, partners, and open source communities to solve complex customer problems. Eric earned a BS and MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, including a MS in Technology Commercialization & Entrepreneurship, reflecting a blend of deep technical depth and business-minded execution. Based in the Albany, NY area, he combines hands-on development with strategic roadmapping to turn ambitious cloud-native ideas into production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience