Summary
Eric Berndt is a Senior Frontend engineer based in Montreal with 9 years of experience building scalable React and TypeScript UIs focused on accessibility, developer experience, and component architecture. He has driven platform-wide initiatives at Plusgrade and Shopify, from unified product frameworks and feature-flagging strategies to high-throughput B2B workflows and analytics for millions of merchants. Known for mentoring teams on accessibility and code quality, he also reduces developer toil by creating tooling and solutions that unblock others, such as dependency caching strategies and editor autocompletes. His work blends pragmatic product thinking with deep technical problem-solving—resolving subtle integration issues like translation conflicts at the framework level. A practical polyglot of frontend stacks, he brings empathy and an eye for UX to complex engineering problems. Off the clock he signs commits as “Eric the Blue,” hinting at a playful, deliberate approach to craft.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Career Diploma, Publishing, Career Diploma, Publishing at Langara College
English