Eric Clemmons
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEric Clemmons is a principal systems engineer and manager with 15 years of experience building scalable, product-focused engineering teams and shipping customer-impacting systems from startups to Fortune-scale companies. Based in Austin, he combines hands-on front-end expertise in JavaScript/React/Node with backend experience, having contributed to well-known open-source projects including AWS Amplify and practical developer tools like click-to-component. He’s led cross-platform UI efforts, reworked deployment and architecture patterns at companies such as Stripe, Starbucks, and Honor, and launched internal design systems that measurably improved adoption and time-to-market. As a leader he emphasizes pragmatic, outcome-driven remote teams that leverage automation and AI to scale delivery without linear headcount growth. His engineering style favors UX/DX improvements and rapid prototyping—turning 0-to-1 ideas into production while simplifying complex polyglot monorepos and event-driven systems. An active OSS maintainer, he blends product intuition with developer tooling fluency to improve both user and developer experiences.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Texas A&M University
English
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Github Skills (75)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
file-operations10
gruntjs10
build-automation10
html-webpack-plugin10
javascript10
react-components10
async10
es6-promise10
component-development10
amplify10
react-component10
uid10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ericclemmons/click-to-component
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Option+Click React components in your browser to instantly open the source in VS Code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 82 commits, 53 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on developing the front-end component of the application, including the implementation of the click-to-component functionality. They utilized React, TypeScript, and various libraries to create and style the user interface. Contributions involved setting up a Next.js and Remix app and integrating a context menu for component selection.
reactbrowservscodeinstantlyoption
webpack-contrib/install-webpack-plugin
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Speed up development by automatically installing & saving dependencies with Webpack.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:262 commits, 52 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the development of the `webpack-contrib/install-webpack-plugin` repository, focusing on its core functionality. They implemented the `npm-install-loader` to automatically install and save dependencies. They also created test suites for the parser, installer, and loader modules to ensure the plugin's robustness and reliability. Additionally, the user refactored and enhanced the plugin to support various options and edge cases.
webpack-plugindependenciesspeedinstallinghtml-webpack-plugin
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