Eric Swanson
Sr. Manager, Developer Advocacy at CarMax
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolEric Swanson is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of hands-on engineering and 11 years in senior roles, currently serving as Sr. Manager of Developer Advocacy at CarMax, driving AI tooling adoption and developer experience across the enterprise. He blends architecture and people leadership to build “teams that help teams,” having scaled Backstage portals, standardized golden paths, and reduced platform run-rate by ~74% through pragmatic tool consolidation. A longtime advocate for InnerSource and developer productivity, Eric has founded platform and community practices at multiple companies and led platform engineering teams that improved delivery speed and operational safety. His background spans enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, and large multi-channel e-commerce systems at American Airlines and beyond, with deep experience in CI/CD, SCM, and event-driven platforms. Based in Florida, he pairs measurable cost and time-savings with cultural change—turning developer joy into tangible business outcomes. Beyond the obvious, he has repeatedly translated large transformation initiatives into practical roadmaps that cut new-service onboarding from days to minutes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Rio Salado Community CollegeExercise Science & Health, Exercise Science & Health at Arizona State UniversityBusiness, Business at Western International University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
890reputation
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
command-line-interface10
visual-studio10
e2e10
wkhtmltopdf10
browser10
react-testing-library10
vagrant10
salesforce10
e2e-test10
git-workflow10
nodejs10
asciidoctor10
visualization10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ericis/ericis.github.com
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
ourchitecture/fidlit
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
fidlit.app
Contributions:89 PRs, 91 pushes, 94 branches in 3 months
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