Summary
Eric Haynes is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable APIs, concurrent systems, and responsive UIs, currently shaping product at OpenPhone from Atlanta. His background spans startups and enterprise engagements—from Better and Manheim to architecting solutions for The Home Depot—giving him strong system design and delivery chops across diverse stacks. He favors pragmatic simplicity (“only a solution if it’s simpler than the problem it solves”) and consistently focuses on making complex systems easy to use and maintain. Comfortable across backend concurrency and frontend polish, he bridges architecture and hands-on implementation to ship reliable, performant services. Colleagues rely on him for clean APIs, thoughtful asynchronous processing, and product-minded engineering that reduces long-term complexity.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Kennesaw State University