Eric Paulsen is Field CTO - EMEA at Coder with five years of fast-moving experience bridging sales engineering and technical leadership to help Global 2000 customers accelerate AI and cloud-native development. A founding sales engineer turned regional technical executive, he combines hands-on full-stack contributions to Coder’s open-source remote development platform with customer-facing strategy and technical enablement. He’s comfortable shipping both frontend fixes and backend/chart improvements (including Helm and Terraform-related work) that keep developer workflows smooth at scale. Based in London, he pairs a Kenan-Flagler business background with postgraduate AI/ML study, giving him a rare mix of commercial savvy and technical depth. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex architectures into practical deployment patterns that drive adoption across enterprises.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Program in AI and Machine Learning, Postgraduate Program in AI and Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Austin
BSBA Kenan-Flagler Business School, BSBA Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:135 reviews, 30 commits, 242 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to both the frontend and backend aspects of the Coder project. They addressed UI issues by fixing documentation links and adding space characters to the group display name on the site. The user also implemented features for the Helm chart by adding envFrom values and topology spread constraints. Additionally, they made backend adjustments by fixing a naming convention for a group GET request and updating documentation.
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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