Summary
Eric Barendt is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years building cloud-native platforms, currently shaping Modern Treasury’s services after leading platform efforts at Stitch Fix and Data Axle. He combines hands-on systems administration roots with strong technical leadership to design, deploy, and operate data ingestion and API-driven delivery pipelines that empower customers. Comfortable across Ruby, Go, Terraform, and AWS, he’s shipped internal platforms for microservices at scale and driven platform strategy as a VP of Platform Engineering. Eric’s background running his own consulting practice and maintaining long-lived Rails deployments gives him a pragmatic focus on reliability and continuous delivery. Colocating deep operational knowledge with platform architecture, he’s particularly adept at bridging development, deployment, and operations to reduce friction for engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Washington