Summary
Eric Schwabe is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, mission-critical systems across aerospace and cloud infrastructure. Currently Director of Engineering at Confluent, he leads developer productivity efforts to accelerate time-to-market, after driving WAF, telemetry, and CDN capabilities for Azure Front Door at Microsoft. He combines hands-on technical depth in distributed systems, data mining, and parallel computation with proven program-level execution on fixed-deadline, evolving-requirements projects. Earlier in his career at Boeing he led flight-test data processing efforts and built HDF-based APIs, giving him a strong grounding in data-intensive engineering. Eric holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and brings a pragmatic blend of technical leadership, operational rigor, and a knack for turning complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Washington State University