Summary
Eric Harrison is a senior engineering manager with 14 years of progressive software leadership experience, currently based in the Portland metro area. He specializes in transforming teams and delivery processes—implementing Agile (Scrum/Kanban), improving forecasting with Jira Portfolio, and growing engineering organizations by more than 50% to boost product value. Eric has a strong track record of operational impact, from migrating traffic off legacy monoliths and cutting cloud spend from $1.3M to $310K, to facilitating contract renewals that increased revenue by 30%. He pairs hands-on technical judgment (architecture, QA automation, full-stack delivery) with people-first coaching to build predictable, healthy teams. Notably, he built a collaboration portal for cancer research trials that enabled clinicians to co-create personalized treatments, underscoring his interest in mission-driven engineering. His background ranges from early QA and systems engineering to director-level delivery, giving him fluency across the entire software lifecycle.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mesa Community College