Summary
Eric True is a Principal Software Engineer in the Greater Seattle Area with two decades of web development experience and a decade focused on full-stack Ruby on Rails systems. He designs and maintains customer-facing REST APIs at Skytap that power automation tools like Terraform and the product UI, while also contributing to Elixir and Java maintenance work. Early experience at Amazon and other companies gave him strong front-end chops—semantic markup, accessibility, and performant JavaScript—that inform pragmatic API and UI tradeoffs today. Comfortable across the stack, he balances customer-facing API design with internal frontend needs and has a practical history of shipping integrations, file handling, and remote-access services. A detail few expect: he blends enterprise-scale front-end best practices learned at Amazon with long-term Rails API craftsmanship to keep both developer and customer experiences smooth.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering (prof. dev.), Software Engineering (prof. dev.) at UC Santa Cruz Extension