Eric Hayes
Principal Engineer at Umbrage
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorEric Hayes is a Principal Engineer based in Houston with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications, ecommerce platforms, and developer tooling. He has moved between hands-on technical leadership and executive roles—founding Hayes Marketing, serving as CTO at Aavya, and directing engineering at multiple startups—demonstrating both product intuition and team-building chops. At Umbrage he progressed from Director of Engineering to Principal Engineer, signaling a focus on architecture and delivery at scale. Comfortable across the stack, Eric excels at turning ambiguous requirements into practical systems and mentoring teams through growth phases. His background as a founder and CTO gives him a pragmatic appreciation for business constraints alongside technical trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (24)
shopify10
webpack9
postcss9
docker9
sass9
liquid9
browsersync9
golang8
ecosystem8
container7
shopify-api7
slate7
go7
assemble6
minimum5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hayes0724/shopify-cart-fetch
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Shopify Cart API with zero dependencies, TypeScript, lightweight and modular
Contributions:8 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
shopifyapidependenciesecommercezero
hayes0724/shopify-webpack-themekit
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Shopify development tool using webpack and themekit
Contributions:2 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
browsersyncbabelshopify-developmentshopify-themeliquid
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