Summary
Eric Bittleman is a seasoned senior software engineer and platform architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing distributed, event-driven systems and enterprise-grade security platforms. He has led platform and IAM architecture at companies like LeafLink and Fugue, scaling systems to millions of requests per minute while driving measurable cost reductions through rightsizing, autoscaling, and query optimization. Eric excels at developer empowerment—building CI/CD, automated testing, AI-assisted code review, and developer tooling that materially improve productivity across organizations. He combines deep cloud infrastructure and serverless design skills with practical product-focused delivery, having pivoted Fugue from an appliance to a multi-tenant SaaS with self-healing infrastructure and robust ETL and reporting pipelines. Known for technical mentorship and cross-organizational influence, he regularly codified standards, hosted learning sessions, and implemented fine-grained RBAC and OAuth/OpenID solutions in production. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems design, security-first thinking, and developer experience innovation.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Arizona State University