Eric K
Senior Software Engineer at Lonely Planet
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric K is a senior full‑stack engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and serverless systems, currently focused on TypeScript, React, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB. He has led teams as a tech lead, rebuilt customer-facing payment portals, integrated complex payment and finance systems, and created shared monorepo tooling and CI/CD automations to improve developer experience. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the popular serverless-esbuild plugin by refactoring dependency extraction with AST walking and fixing asynchronous packaging bugs. Eric combines hands-on coding—writing custom webpack/esbuild plugins and GitHub Actions—with mentoring and regular code review leadership to raise team velocity and quality. Based in the Nashville area, he brings a practical attention to maintainability and automation that routinely turns hobbyist curiosity into production-grade solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (13)
serverless10
nodejs10
typescript10
typescripts10
bundler10
typescript-types10
esbuild10
aws9
plugin9
testing8
pnpm7
yarnpkg7
npm7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
floydspace/serverless-esbuild
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
💨 A Serverless framework plugin to bundle JavaScript and TypeScript with extremely fast esbuild
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring and improving the functionality of the `serverless-esbuild` plugin. Key contributions include enhancing dependency extraction using AST walking with `acorn` and `acorn-walk`, and implementing asynchronous packager instance creation to fix a bug. The user also updated dependencies, fixed linting issues, and updated the test suite. These changes streamlined the plugin's performance and maintainability.
esbuild-pluginbundlerbundleserverlessesbuild
lonelyplanet/browserslist-config
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 1 month
browserslistbrowserslist-config
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