Summary
Eric Farraro is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing products across mobile and web, now directing Marketplace and Economy engineering at Roblox. He has led large full-stack teams at Twitter/X and Groupon, driving monetization efforts like Twitter Blue, Verified Organizations, and creator payments as well as acquisition and onboarding systems that impacted growth. Comfortable both with hands-on product engineering and organizational leadership, he has managed teams of ~35 engineers including staff ICs and managers, and has deep experience modernizing app architectures and payment integrations. Based in San Jose, he blends a pragmatic build-first mindset with a track record of shipping high-impact features across massive consumer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science & Engineering, BS Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Davis