Eric Ford
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEric Ford is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a PhD in Computer Science and four years of professional software engineering experience highlighted by roles at Capital One and Firebolt. He builds production-ready data systems and developer tooling—authoring the dbt-firebolt adapter and enhancing Firebolt’s Python SDK with async capabilities that drove product adoption and new clients. Eric has deep backend and data expertise from architecting PRIMO, a widely cited primate morphometrics database, and from engineering large-scale ETL workflows using Spark, Redis, and AWS. His background spans research-grade software (Haskell/C/C++) for DARPA-funded genomics work to pragmatic CI/CD, containerization, and REST API design for scientific and commercial systems. Comfortable translating domain expertise into reliable, well-tested software, he also brings experience leading small remote teams and driving cross-functional stakeholder outcomes. An uncommon blend of academic rigor and product-focused engineering, he excels at turning complex data requirements into accessible, auditable platforms.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBS/BA Physics/English Lit., BS/BA Physics/English Lit. at Miami University
Github Skills (15)
sdk10
analytics-engineering10
code-behind10
transformation10
adapter10
dbt9
data-warehouse9
self-contained9
dbt-packages9
data-modeling9
python8
sql8
elt7
testing7
bigquery4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
firebolt-db/dbt-firebolt
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
The dbt adapter for Firebolt
Contributions:15 releases, 37 reviews, 288 commits in 9 months
transformationanalytics-engineeringsqlfireboltadapter
firebolt-db/jaffle_shop_firebolt
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
A self-contained dbt project for testing purposes
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 27 commits in 7 months
dbttestingsqlself-contained
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