Eric Caron
Sr Director, Technology And Digital Experience at Caribou Coffee
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolEric Caron is a seasoned technology executive with 20+ years building customer-facing mobile apps, ecommerce and omnichannel platforms, and leading digital transformation for retail and multi-location businesses. As Sr Director of Technology and Digital Experience at Caribou Coffee, he has driven platform modernization—from a white-label Flutter/iOS/Android order-ahead and loyalty stack to Azure cloud migration—improving uptime to 99.7% and cutting TCO by 20%. He combines hands-on engineering chops (past roles include API modernization at Best Buy and CTO responsibilities at Series B startups) with strategic vendor and martech rationalization informed by Gartner partnerships. Eric established an AI governance framework enabling GitHub Copilot adoption and led complex integrations across payments, CDP, loyalty, and gift card systems to unify multi-brand ecosystems. Active in the Twin Cities startup and national API communities, he pairs product-oriented leadership with practical delivery improvements that shift teams from reactive support to agile, outcome-driven organizations. Notably, his early open-source work includes robust test-driven fixes for IoT tooling such as an Amazon Dash Button module, reflecting a continued attention to reliability and automation.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science IT Business, Computer Science IT Business at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (16)
php10
javascript10
nodejs10
pcap10
parsing10
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network-programming9
error-handling9
mongoose6
location6
apc6
export-to-excel6
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hortinstein/node-dash-button
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
A small module to emit events when an Amazon Dash Button is pressed
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to bug fixes, feature enhancements, and test improvements for the Amazon Dash Button module. They fixed a typo, added functionality to bind the button listener to a specific interface, and implemented error handling for packet decoding. The user refactored tests and improved testing to make the code more robust.
eventsdashdash-buttonamazonnodered
BestBuyAPIs/minnebar-tvs
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 53 pushes in 11 months
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