Eric Sniff
Chief Technology Officer at Visiting Media
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Sniff is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO based in Portland, Oregon, with 20+ years building large-scale, real-time data platforms that process petabytes monthly while preserving sub-second response times. He specializes in distributed systems, identity resolution, real-time experimentation, and machine-learning infrastructure, translating business needs into high-performance architectures across cloud environments (GCP/AWS). At Contentstack and previously Lytics he led teams to scale CDP capabilities into integrated DXP components, driving real-time segmentation, recommendations, and lookalike modeling for enterprise customers. A hands-on technologist, he contributes to open-source projects like IBM/sarama—improving Kafka connectivity and TCP keepalive behavior—and codes in Go and Rust while championing SRE practices. He combines deep technical craftsmanship with people-first leadership, mentoring engineers to ship resilient, observable systems that directly impact customer engagement.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaSunset High School
English
Stackoverflow
5,775reputation
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69answers
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http
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windows
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Github Skills (19)
windows10
configuration-management10
http10
kafka10
kafka-node10
networking10
go10
kafkajs10
webserver10
user-interface9
testing8
data-structures6
google-compute-engine6
static-content6
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/sarama
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Eric focused on improving the network connection configurations and validation within the Sarama library for Apache Kafka. Their contributions included adding TCP keepalive functionality to maintain persistent connections, removing a wrapper function for connection creation, and implementing validation for the TCP keepalive client configuration. Additionally, they addressed comments from code reviews, further refining the implementation and ensuring proper functionality.
golangsaramaapache-kafkago-libraryapache
epsniff/sidonia
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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