Summary
Eric Fixler is a principal engineering and product leader with 25+ years of experience building customer-focused, high-performing teams and shipping products from startup prototypes to large-scale marketplaces. He specializes in mobile-first e-commerce, payments, shipping, data and internationalization, with a track record of creating and scaling seller tools and fulfillment programs that drove triple-digit growth and large partnership deals at Etsy. A pragmatic operator and advisor, he blends hands-on engineering chops with product strategy—having led teams at Mozilla, Squarespace, Automattic, Tumblr and founded Taxat—while helping startups clarify roadmap and execution through his advisory practice. Notable for bridging product, policy and global commerce, he’s spoken at international forums and negotiated major cross-border partnerships, and he often pairs systems-level thinking with hardware/IoT prototyping roots.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Interactive Telecommunications, Master's degree Interactive Telecommunications at New York University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Binghamton University