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 (40)
elemental10
api10
segmentation10
certificate-generation10
authentication9
normalization9
coverage9
crud9
backend9
packet8
go8
authorization8
recipe8
devtools8
ecology8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
acuvity/api-go
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
Golang API for Acuvity
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golang
acuvity/golang-ipc
Mar 2025 - May 2026
Golang Inter-process communication library for Window, Mac and Linux.
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
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