Eric Cranston
Staff Software Engineer at Zscaler
Greater San Luis Obispo Area United States
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SeniorEric Cranston is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and full-stack applications, currently contributing to Shopify after leading platform work at Red Canary/Zscaler. He has deep experience modernizing legacy systems, owning reliability and observability for high-load services, and driving migrations with near-zero downtime across manufacturing and ecommerce domains. Eric blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership—acting as technical lead and product owner while mentoring teams and collaborating directly with stakeholders like CFOs and product managers. He’s comfortable across Rails monoliths, microservices, and front-end animation/UX challenges (including high-performance Canvas visualizations) and prefers pragmatic solutions that keep teams moving quickly without sacrificing reliability.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
ruby-client7
api6
nodejs4
okta4
ruby4
authentication4
adp3
api-auth3
auth3
javascript3
validation2
alerts2
ember-addon2
react2
emberjs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
westernmilling/synchronized_model
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Rubygem that adds some helper services for sending model data between Rails apps using messages
Contributions:20 PRs, 27 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrubygemsending
cracell/recipes
Feb 2012 - Jan 2023
Contributions:222 commits, 151 pushes in 11 years 1 month
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