Summary
Eric Chirlin is a senior software engineer and people-focused technical leader based in the New York City area, with a 15+ year track record building mission-critical systems and scaling engineering teams. He has led distributed, intercontinental teams through reorganizations while remaining hands-on with architecture, system design, and production code, most recently joining Backstage after four years shaping platform reliability and delivery at Voxy. Eric excels at translating ambiguous business problems into pragmatic technical solutions by fostering trust, clear communication, and strong cross-functional partnerships across Product and QA. He has driven observability, incident response, and platform modernization efforts that directly reduced operational costs and protected revenue. Comfortable as both the lone engineer shipping flagship products and as an engineering lead hiring, mentoring, and promoting talent, he brings a rare combination of tactical execution and strategic team development. Colleagues rely on him as a thoughtful escalation point and facilitator of architectural consensus during high-stakes delivery.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Queen Mary University of London
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
English