Summary
Eric Hurkman is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across fin-tech, consumer/social, and healthcare domains. He has a proven track record taking products from zero to one and scaling them one to N, most notably growing Carta’s engineering organization to 60+ engineers across multiple global offices and later leading platform, AI, and data efforts at Savvy Wealth. Comfortable shifting between hands-on technical direction and executive leadership, he has led engineering, design, product, and AI teams at startups and high-growth companies. Based in New York with a software engineering background from Milwaukee School of Engineering, he combines product-focused execution with hiring and organizational design to deliver complex, production-grade systems. An uncommon strength is repeatedly translating early-stage technical vision into mature, distributed engineering organizations across regulated industries.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering