Eric Mcdermid
Principal Engineer (Platform)
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Mcdermid is a Principal Engineer (Platform) with nearly three decades of software experience and nine years focused on enterprise big data and platform engineering. Based in Colorado, he has a long track record as a remote senior contributor for Bay Area companies, shaping high-throughput systems using Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra and cloud-native architectures. He led core engine development at a streaming database startup and later drove big-data overhauls and ETL frameworks for ad tech and payment analytics platforms. As owner of a consulting practice, he combines hands-on kernel- and platform-level coding with strategic architecture and customer-facing proof-of-concept work. Known humorously on GitHub as an "assistant llama wrangler," he brings a pragmatic, curious approach to solving performance and integration challenges. His career shows a rare blend of deep systems-level expertise and continued delivery in production-scale cloud environments.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Colorado State University
German
Github Skills (16)
data-format9
cli-application9
command-line-parser8
option-parser8
getopt8
argparse8
completions8
argument-parsing8
parsing8
subcommands6
command-line6
scala6
java5
mongodb5
in-memory4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
quantifind/Sumac
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Argument parsing in Scala
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 9 months
subcommandsargparsedata-formatgetoptcompletions
ericmcdermidqf/fongo
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
memorymongojavain-memorymongodb
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