Eric Irwin is a strategic, results-driven engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient, self-serve platforms and driving large-scale organizational change. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Quantum Metric, he leads Developer Experience, SRE, and Platform Quality teams to accelerate delivery, reduce cycle times, and standardize observability and incident response across the company. He has repeatedly introduced SRE practices, CI/CD, ephemeral dev environments, and compliance-ready processes (SOC2/ISO/HiTrust) to improve reliability and developer productivity. A former founder and hands-on engineer, Eric combines startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery—having migrated platforms to Kubernetes, implemented event-driven architectures, and contributed backend improvements to the open-source DDF project. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he coaches leaders with an emphasis on empathy and curiosity while keeping a practical focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSE - Software Engineering Masters of Science Engineering in Software Engineering, MSE - Software Engineering Masters of Science Engineering in Software Engineering at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The Citadel
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:28 commits, 19 PRs, 60 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric focused on enhancing the catalog commands within the DDF framework. Their primary contributions included refactoring the `remove`, `removeAll`, and `search` commands, integrating caching mechanisms, and adding logging for success and failure scenarios. Further development involved improving the user interface through modifications to the metacard details page. They also made test class updates to adhere to the established naming conventions and standards.
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
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Eric Irwin - Senior Director Of Engineering at Quantum Metric