Eric Ayers
Startup Co-founder at Stealth Mode
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolEric Ayers is a seasoned software leader and startup co-founder with 13 years of industry experience and a deep background in scalable backend systems, developer tooling, and payment infrastructure. He led large cross-functional engineering efforts at Square, owning payment acceptance APIs and supply-chain integrations with an emphasis on reliability and high SLAs, and contributed to open-source build tooling like Pants and legacy Twitter libraries to improve performance and dependency handling. After a career pivot into K-12 STEAM education, he has run and designed makerspaces and instructional programs while now building a Python FastAPI prototyping framework on GCP. Comfortable spanning C, Java, Go, and Python, Eric blends hands-on optimization (e.g., jar-tool performance fixes and memory-leak resolutions) with leadership at scale. Based in Atlanta and armed with a Georgia Tech MS in Computer Science, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for education-forward product design.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
apache-commons10
commons10
io10
java10
javas10
performance-optimization10
fileio10
build-automation10
file-handling10
file-processing10
file-access10
protocol-buffers9
testing9
dependency-management9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Apr 2014 - Dec 2016
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:431 commits, 579 PRs, 374 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the build system of Pants, focusing on Java code generation using protocol buffers. Their work involved enhancements to the Java and Python code generation processes and the incorporation of tools like Wire for code generation. The user also worked on improving the handling of external dependencies, particularly with Maven artifacts, and addressing issues related to class loading and dependency management. In addition, the user made contributions to test execution, particularly concerning the integration of JUnit and fixing problems around resource handling.
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twitter-archive/commons
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Twitter common libraries for python and the JVM (deprecated)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on optimizing the `jar-tool` utility. Their contributions focused on performance improvements, specifically implementing a `SuperShady` copy optimization to speed up jar file copying and using Apache Commons FileUtils to handle file movement across filesystem boundaries. Additionally, they addressed a memory leak issue and fixed a bug related to hashmap iteration order in Java 7+ environments. These changes aimed to improve the efficiency and stability of the jar manipulation tool.
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