Eric Menendez
Staff Engineer at Spotify
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Menendez is a hands-on staff engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and leading cross-functional teams at companies like Spotify and Twitter. He combines technical depth—from DevOps, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud architectures to Python tooling—with a leader’s focus on accountability, shared ownership, and shipping measurable results. Eric has a track record of turning stalled projects into delivered outcomes (notably driving a Python 3 migration and instituting quarterly planning that dramatically improved delivery at Twitter) and scaling engineering practices at startups through to acquisition and enterprise compliance. Comfortable both mentoring engineers and working directly on code, he emphasizes testing, observability, and operational rigor to reduce risk and accelerate iteration. Trained in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon and Penn State, he brings a systems-level perspective informed by earlier work in embedded and electronics engineering for complex, regulated environments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (76)
recovery10
background-image9
geolocation9
pipeline9
kubeflow-pipelines9
pitr9
archiving9
kubeflow9
backup9
client-library8
k8s8
python8
mlops8
kedro8
python-client8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
emenendez/cell-gps
Mar 2013 - May 2016
Cellular device geolocation web app
Contributions:204 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
cellulargeolocationangular
emenendez/gpxutils
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:76 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 4 months
gpxgpx-files
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