Eric Laforce
Senior Director Of Engineering at LeafLink
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEric Laforce is a hands-on engineering leader with 13+ years of experience scaling teams and delivery for both startups and established financial and tech firms, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at LeafLink. He combines operational rigor with a people-first approach—focusing on culture, discipline, and mentorship—to turn high-performing teams into reliable product engines. His background spans founding a games startup (Haste Arcade), principal engineering roles at Live Oak Bank and Bank of America, and senior leadership at Levvel, giving him deep experience in services, operations, and platform delivery. Eric contributes to open-source quality through test automation work on projects like numbers.js, emphasizing robustness in mathematical libraries and matrix transforms. Based in Charlotte, NC, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill with a bias for shipping pragmatic, well-tested systems while nurturing technical craft across his org.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Clemson UniversityMasters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
math9
nodejs9
mathematics9
test-driven-design8
graph6
dojo6
vim6
phpexcel6
php6
directed-acyclic-graph6
jquery6
vim-plugin6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
numbers/numbers.js
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying test cases. They implemented exception handling tests for the `addition`, `subtraction`, and `product` functions, ensuring the library's robustness. Furthermore, the user wrote tests for matrix transformation functionalities, including rotation, scaling, shearing, and affine transformations. The changes involved modifying test files and adding new tests to cover the implemented functionalities.
mathstatisticsnode-jsmathematicsjavascript
Skookum/design-patterns
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:29 commits in 8 days
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