Summary
Eric Ray is a pragmatic full-stack developer and senior IT analyst with 11 years of diverse technical and customer-facing experience, currently building workflow and middleware solutions on the K2 platform for a financial services firm in St. Louis. He blends a strong .NET backend focus (C#, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework) with practical front-end and integration skills, and has a history of shipping bespoke C# apps, ETL pipelines, and Android projects. As a .NET MVC instructor he sharpens others on production patterns like unit testing and authentication, reflecting a talent for translating complex concepts into working systems. His background in customer operations taught him to prioritize reliability and automation—he’s delivered tooling and Excel/VBA solutions that became project standards. Comfortable in Agile environments, he has moved legacy console tools into services and converted integration tests into maintainable unit tests, demonstrating an emphasis on testability and maintainability. Eric’s combination of hands-on middleware integration, teaching experience, and real-world operational savvy makes him adept at making disparate systems reliably work together.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at University of Southern California
Certificate of Completion, Full Stack .Net Boot Camp, Certificate of Completion, Full Stack .Net Boot Camp at Claim Academy