Summary
Eric Bloch is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 16+ years building and scaling software across marketplaces, B2B SaaS, consumer mobile, media, and developer tools. As Co-founder and CTO of Notewize he shipped a 1.0 React Native mobile app with real-time, on-device guitar transcription running inference 30+ times per second, blending product leadership with hands-on systems and ML engineering. Previously he led Udemy Business engineering through hypergrowth and an IPO, growing a SaaS offering from mid-six figures to ~$300M ARR while owning platform, security, media, and native apps. He’s experienced hiring and mentoring engineers and managers, driving large refactors and architectural reworks, and translating research into shipped features. Based in Hillsborough, CA, he advises early-stage teams through 10th Avenue Advising and brings a mix of startup grit, enterprise-scale delivery, and a history of community-facing technical work.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Sc. B. Computer Science and Math, Sc. B. Computer Science and Math at Brown University
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English