Summary
Eric Kolotyluk is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Vancouver with 12+ years building distributed, cloud-native systems and data pipelines across finance, gaming, security, and identity domains. He blends hands-on engineering—Kafka, Apache Beam/Spark, GCP Dataflow, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Cassandra—with architecture, governance, and developer experience work to turn messy legacy codebases into maintainable platforms. At ForgeRock he focuses on extracting, transforming and labeling large-scale identity datasets for explainable ML, and previously led secure microservice and Akka-based initiatives at NuData and IGG. Eric is also experienced in reverse engineering, designing operational data stores, and documenting architectural governance for teams and vendors. He emphasizes collaboration, knowledge management, and process to reduce tribal knowledge and improve quality, while personally leveraging high sensory sensitivity for deep technical insight and empathy.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at The University of British Columbia
Master of Science, Master of Science at Simon Fraser University