Summary
Eric Theis is a Principal at Bling Capital and a former senior engineer at Flexport with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems across marketplaces, finance, payments, and reprogrammable networking. He combines deep technical chops from Stanford MS/BS computer science and hands-on engineering at Barefoot Networks, Instagram, and Facebook with an investor’s instinct for marketplace, SaaS, and automation opportunities. At Flexport he helped build financial controls and AR/payments for global trade, and as an investor and board observer he now backs startups in data products and logistics. Comfortable at the intersection of distributed systems, ML, security, and networks, he brings both product-minded engineering and operational rigor to scaling complex platforms. An uncommon blend of researcher, practitioner, and investor, he pairs technical fluency with a curiosity for music and applied AI.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, German, Japanese