Eric Waite
Engineering Manager at Discovery Education
Osprey, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Waite is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years guiding cross-functional teams and a 30+-year technical background spanning front-end, Java backend, and operational infrastructure. Currently Lead Engineer at the Stanford Taylor Foundation, he has previously managed and scaled product engineering teams at Discovery Education, DreamBox Learning, and Reading Plus, where he introduced scrum practices, engineering ladders, and improved test coverage. Comfortable both coding and coordinating, his roots include building CRM and integration systems, load-balanced hosted deployments, and even eyetracking analysis software—demonstrating rare full-stack depth across education technology. Based in Osprey, Florida, he blends hands-on development experience with people-first leadership, mentoring engineers through career growth and delivery improvements. Under the surface he pairs pragmatic process changes with technical migrations, turning legacy systems into maintainable, testable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science/ Information Science, BS, Computer Science/ Information Science at Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton UniversityAdvanced 3D Modelling, Advanced 3D Modelling at School Of Visual Arts
English
Github Skills (10)
web-component-tester7
trigger4
binding4
travis4
node-module3
nodejs3
testing2
monorepo1
polymer1
web-components1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ishmael-readingplus/trigger-travis
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
node-moduletriggertravisnodejsprogrammatically
ishmaelahmed/dotvim
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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