Eric Hacke
Staff Engineer at Instacart
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Hacke is a Staff Engineer with over 18 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and management to build high-performance, scalable systems across ecommerce, search, and recommendations. He has repeatedly driven performance and architecture improvements—most recently setting a strategy that improved search performance by 80% at Faire—and has taken teams from legacy stacks to modern, cloud-native infrastructures. A founder of two startups and author of production ML and identity platforms, he pairs product-driven engineering with deep systems experience in streaming, caching, and large-scale indexing. Comfortable both as an IC and as a manager of distributed teams, he has led migrations, multi-cluster failover designs, and realtime integrations at scale. Based in Toronto, he combines aerospace-grade systems thinking from early career work with a pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (195)
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
groupby9
client-library9
google-cloud9
scheduling9
facebook9
java9
adapter9
child-process9
analytics-tracking9
nodejs9
scrubber9
jsdoc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
groupby/gb-node-release
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:11 releases, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
npm-packagenodejsnpm
ehacke/eslint-config
Feb 2020 - Jan 2025
General purpose Node ESLint configuration
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
eslinteslint-configpurposenodejstypescript
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