Eric Meisel
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Osseo, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolEric Meisel is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping scalable back-end and data architectures for major entertainment and SaaS companies, currently at Salesforce. He has led teams and systems at Disney Streaming, SiriusXM, and SingleComm, specializing in cloud-native services, event-sourced reactive frameworks, and analytics platforms using Scala, Kinesis, Redshift, Couchbase, and serverless TypeScript. A pragmatic engineer who moves between hands-on coding and architectural leadership, he has contributed to notable open-source projects including LocalStack (Kinesis integration) and Cats Effect (async runtime/backpressure), demonstrating deep expertise in distributed systems and concurrency. His background as a data architect informs a strong focus on performance tuning and operational tooling—evident from Redshift utilities and automation to initialize streaming resources at startup. Based in Osseo, MN, he pairs enterprise-scale experience with a practical curiosity for building developer-friendly, testable cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Management Information Systems at Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business
American Sign Language, English
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Github Skills (28)
asynchronous10
cats-effect10
typeclass10
cloud-computing10
python10
async10
bash10
scala10
database-tuning10
effects10
amazon-redshift10
f10
aws10
sql10
database-optimization10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 14 commits, 23 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to integrating and updating the `kinesis-mock` provider within the LocalStack project. Their work involved setting up and configuring `kinesis-mock`, updating its version dependencies, and adapting the codebase to utilize its features. Additionally, the user introduced configuration options to initialize Kinesis streams on startup and updated versions of kinesis-mock, demonstrating proficiency in AWS services, cloud infrastructure, and related configurations.
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
typelevel/cats-effect
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
The pure asynchronous runtime for Scala
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 49 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the core back-end functionality of the project, focusing on asynchronous programming and concurrency. Their commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the internal workings of the Cats Effect library. They implemented changes in the local queue and backpressure mechanisms.
asynchronousfunctional-programmingcontinuationtypeclassesruntime
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