Eric Black
Principal Software Engineer at Heroku
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Black is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience at Heroku, where he’s progressed from senior engineer to principal while owning the CLI, Dashboard, and developer tooling platform. He drives large-scale technical modernization—authoring architectural RFCs, leading a full CLI ESM migration and yarn→npm upgrade, and delivering measurable performance gains through telemetry refactoring and lazy-loading. Comfortable from hands-on coding to cross-functional technical leadership, he unifies SDK, CLI, extension, and dashboard efforts into a shared TypeScript strategy and monorepo vision. Eric also leads infrastructure and security initiatives across testing, error tracking, and dependency hygiene, and champions practical AI-assisted development via custom agents and AGENTS.md. Based in San Jose, he pairs a systems-level perspective with strong product sensitivity, consistently turning long-term architecture into shipped improvements developers notice.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (52)
todoist10
heroku-toolbelt10
heroku-api10
slugify10
npm-cli10
herokuapp10
heroku-cli10
appointment10
heroku10
slug10
buildpack10
cli10
core-services9
integrate9
emotionjs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/heroku-slugs
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
CLI Plugin to manage downloading of slugs
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 16 PRs in 4 years 11 months
downloadingherokuslugifyslugcli-plugin
eablack/code-corps-ember
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:56 pushes in 2 years 4 months
emberjsfront-endember
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