Eric Peterson
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Peterson is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently focused on Developer Experience at Spotify in Stockholm. He spans both back-end and front-end work, contributing notably to the popular open-source Backstage project where he improved TechDocs and search reliability. His background blends startup grit—cofounding Automaton—with enterprise leadership at Tableau, giving him a pragmatic product-minded approach to engineering. Eric is comfortable shipping across the stack, from caching and TypeScript fixes to integrating extensible add-on frameworks. He also brings nonprofit and community experience through roles like contract development and a recent vice-chair position at Studio Växt, reflecting an appetite for mission-driven projects. Colleagues would describe him as a dependable problem-solver who bridges developer tooling, documentation, and product needs.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS BA Computer Science Digital Media (Respectively), BS BA Computer Science Digital Media (Respectively) at University of Denver
English, Japanese, French, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
searching9
test-automation9
back-end-development9
nodejs8
opensearch4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Front-end Developer
Back-end Developer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:946 reviews, 845 commits, 353 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the Backstage project, particularly concerning the TechDocs backend and search functionalities. They fixed a caching bug in the TechDocs backend related to HEAD requests, implemented fixes for TypeScript errors in the search backend node, and addressed issues in search bar tests. Furthermore, the user worked on incorporating and adapting to the TechDocs add-ons framework, including creating and registering add-ons and exposing related hooks and reader components.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
tableau-mkt/datapumps-tableau-extract
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Node datapumps mixin for writing data to a Tableau Extracts.
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
tableaunodejsextractsmixin
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