Eric Bowman
Chief Technology Officer at King
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolEric Bowman is a veteran technology executive and CTO currently leading King’s tech and AI strategy, having shaped product engineering organizations that deliver at massive scale. He has a proven track record of transformative leadership across consumer and infrastructure domains—scaling Zalando’s tech org fivefold, modernizing TomTom into cloud- and AI-driven products (including the first location plugin for ChatGPT), and steering architecture for high-concurrency platforms at Gilt. His roots in game development as lead programmer on The Sims 1.0 combine with deep systems and telecom architecture experience, giving him uncommon breadth from low-level performance to AI-enabled services. Based in Berlin, he balances hands-on strategic execution with supervisory and advisory roles across startups and boards, and is selective about angel investments. Known for introducing Radical Agility and fostering inclusive, creative cultures, he emphasizes sustainable engineering practices that unlock long-term product velocity. An ally and lifelong learner, he brings pragmatic vision and a habit of hiring and developing successors.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Reed CollegePhillips Exeter AcademyPhysics, Physics at Cornell University
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Github Skills (58)
sbt10
sbt-plugin9
api8
zinc8
scala8
slurm7
tooling7
rest7
mercurial7
rest-api7
scala-collections6
monads6
openapi6
amazon-ec26
traits6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ebowman/adventofcode.com
Dec 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:301 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 2 months
ebowman/splitter
Jul 2011 - Mar 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 6 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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