Eric Powers
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Powers is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building service-oriented architectures, automation, and tooling for fast-moving startups and enterprise acquisitions. He is a polyglot engineer (Go, Python, Java, C#) who routinely designs control plane microservices, RBAC/auth systems, and resilient integrations across databases and cloud providers. Eric has led cross-functional automation efforts, testing infrastructure, and CI systems that improved coverage and reduced operational cost while surfacing hard-to-find runtime issues like data races. He thrives on technical challenges and practical security hardening—evident in projects that added granular RBAC, secure metric proxies, and distributed locking at scale. Based in Aurora, Colorado, he combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and process improvements that carry through multiple acquisitions and product transitions. A detail people often miss: he frequently bridges product and infra gaps by shipping both client applications and backend control planes, not just one or the other.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Github Skills (69)
api10
x509certificates10
elemental10
segmentation10
scalable9
coverage9
certificate-generation9
normalization9
crud8
x5098
hook8
go-client8
backend8
authentication8
mtls8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ericrpowers/packet-images
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 200 branches in 10 months
packet
ericrpowers/py_ms
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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