Eric Simon
Software Engineer at Finch
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Simon is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable back-end systems and data platforms, currently contributing at Finch in Denver. He has a strong track record as a founding engineer and platform architect, having built horizontally scalable cloud services and ML pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Airflow for startups and Fortune 500 clients. His work spans IoT data platforms, big data architectures, and end-to-end machine learning productionization, informed by hands-on roles from founding a small e-commerce business to leadership at YC-backed Kable. Comfortable shipping both infrastructure and product-facing features, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with deep systems engineering skills and a knack for turning complex data flows into low-latency, secure services.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer at St. Mary's College of Maryland
English
Github Skills (41)
pulsar9
messaging9
queuing9
pubsub9
streaming9
apache-pulsar8
event-streaming8
machine-learning6
java6
helm5
scala5
distributed-systems5
graph5
python5
spark5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kable-io/kable-go
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
withterm/term-guard
Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
Lightning-fast data validation for Rust. Built on Arrow/DataFusion with OpenTelemetry observability.
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 14 days
observabilityopentelemetryrustdata-pipelinedata-quality
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