Eric Crahen
Principal Engineer - VPC Lattice PrivateLink
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Crahen is a principal engineer with roughly 25 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems across cloud networking, identity/security, and developer platforms at Amazon, Google, Snap, and IBM. He architects secure-by-default, operable systems and has driven cross-team execution to ship products like VPC Lattice, PrivateLink expansions, API Gateway improvements, and the IAM/SigV4 request-signing foundations. His work spans devices to mainframes—designing hardware-backed security for Amazon Go/Amazon One and evolving billing and query platforms at Google—demonstrating both low-level crypto/hardware integration and high-level service design. Known for translating customer feedback into roadmap priorities, he balances hard tradeoffs across security, reliability, and usability to accelerate platform adoption. He also has deep platform-building pedigree from early AWS service frameworks to multi-cloud deployment and federated identity systems at Snap. Based in Seattle and grounded in hands-on engineering, he combines production-scale ops experience with a knack for turning complex security requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
kotlin9
gradle9
groovy8
java8
x127
api6
python6
json6
jackson5
automation5
streaming4
streaming-api3
low-level2
python-client2
datastore1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
crahen/crahen.github.io
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
crahen/vagrant
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 13 days
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