Eric Lewis is a seasoned software engineer in New York with 14 years of experience building web applications, tooling, and teams across startups, media, education, and Google. He brings deep front-end expertise (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery) and backend familiarity in PHP and server administration, having shipped production web platforms for The New York Times, Codecademy, and Google. At Google he contributed to the AMP project, adding observability around core web vitals (FID, CLS, LCP) which reflects a focus on performance and measurable UX improvements. He has led and taught engineering teams—founding small agencies, leading instruction at General Assembly, and mentoring engineers—so he combines hands-on coding with mentorship and product sensibility. With a BA in Cultural Theory from NYU, he pairs technical craft with an appreciation for user-facing design and communication.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Cultural Theory, BA, Cultural Theory at New York University
Contributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 50 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the implementation of performance metrics within the AMP project. Their work involved adding new tick events for first input delay (FID), layout jank, cumulative layout shift (CLS), and largest contentful paint (LCP). They added unit tests, refactored code to use performance observers, and integrated with existing performance services to track and report these metrics.
Contributions:7 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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