Summary
Eric Duncan is a founder and seasoned technical leader with 18+ years building and scaling distributed systems across cloud and on-premises environments. As Founder & CEO of FTW Coders and former Sr. Staff Engineer at GE Digital, he blends hands-on engineering, architecture, and team leadership—often rescuing and consolidating legacy systems into reliable, high-performance platforms. He has deep experience in ad tech, media, banking and prepaid services, and was an early pioneer in open-source social networking integrations with partners like MySpace, Facebook, Dell and Microsoft. Eric is fluent in polyglot stacks (Go, .NET, NodeJS, Ruby) and has repeatedly led migrations, rapid prototyping and large-scale deployments that improved uptime and throughput. Comfortable advising as Chief Architect, Principal Engineer or technical advisor, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a history of turning failing acquisitions and legacy sprawl into profitable, maintainable systems. Based in New York, he runs his own consulting firm and is open to senior technical leadership opportunities nationwide.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer