Summary
Eric Lesch is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience building and operating web applications, now based in the Austin metro area. He brings end-to-end expertise across front-end and back-end development, CI/CD, and automated AWS provisioning with Terraform, with a primary focus on JavaScript and TypeScript and practical experience in Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, and C#. His recent work spans growth, checkout, and subscription systems at 23andMe and remote notarization at DocuSign, and he now contributes at Gusto on scalable product platforms. Eric has led teams and founded a startup that shipped a WebGL animation site-builder, reflecting both technical breadth and product-minded engineering. A trained French horn performer turned engineer, he combines disciplined collaboration and creative problem-solving to ship reliable, user-facing systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
French Horn Performance, French Horn Performance at Southern Methodist University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) French Horn Performance, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) French Horn Performance at San Francisco Conservatory of Music