Eric Waller
Co-Founder at SeatGeek
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Waller is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 17 years of experience building user-focused web products and scalable back-end systems from New York. As CTO and Co-Founder at SeatGeek since 2009 (and formally co-founding in 2019), he blends hands-on engineering with product-driven leadership to ship high-impact features and experiments. His open-source work on the Sixpack A/B-testing framework shows deep practical experience with experiment management, Redis integration, and backend refactoring to improve maintainability. Earlier roles ranged from UX-focused engineering to web development for financial and media startups, evidencing a strong eye for usability combined with systems thinking. He studied at The Cooper Union, and quietly combines startup grit with a history of instrumented, data-driven product decisions.
18 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Github Skills (12)
backend10
back-end-development10
redis10
python10
ab-testing10
abtest10
api-design9
restful-api9
software-design9
rest-api9
api-rest9
unit-testing5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sixpack/sixpack
Nov 2012 - Nov 2014
Sixpack is a language-agnostic a/b-testing framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on developing and refactoring the back-end functionality of the Sixpack A/B testing framework. Their contributions include implementing and modifying core features related to user participation, conversion tracking, and experiment management. The user integrated with Redis for data storage and developed scripts to handle sequential user IDs and bit operations. They also worked on validating input data and refactoring code for improved maintainability.
testing
seatgeek/soulmate
Feb 2011 - Aug 2014
Unmaintained, use Soulheart!
Contributions:84 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
minecraft
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