Summary
Eric Dauenhauer is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building reliable, well-tested web platforms and APIs. He excels in TypeScript/Node.js, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and serverless architectures, and has driven major frontend performance wins and standardized engineering practices across multiple teams. Eric blends hands-on coding with engineering leadership—introducing AD/adoption of TypeScript, CI/CD, architectural decision records, and observability that measurably reduced latency and improved developer throughput. His background in QA and accessibility informs a pragmatic, test-first approach to design and delivery, including building tooling like a pa11y reporter for accessibility auditing. Comfortable across SQL and NoSQL datastores and AWS/Terraform infrastructure, he repeatedly turns ambiguous product needs into documented, maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him to balance speed, quality, and long-term technical health.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geology at Portland State University
Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at Portland Community College