Eric Weinstein is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling platform and product teams for companies like Tailscale, HashiCorp, ZipRecruiter, and Hulu. He currently leads Platform engineering at Tailscale and previously ran HashiCorp’s Infrastructure Product Group overseeing Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, and Waypoint across 170+ engineers. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and org leadership, he has a track record of extracting services from monoliths, accelerating delivery cycles, and shipping core web and mobile products. A polyglot programmer who enjoys Clojure, Elixir, Elm, Haskell, Idris, and Ruby, he pairs functional-programming curiosity with pragmatic delivery. His background spans startups to large media and infrastructure orgs, informed by an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an MFA in Creative Writing, which surfaces in clear technical communication and thoughtful product decisions. Based in Culver City, he favors building high-performance teams and resilient platforms that make complex systems feel simple for users.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AB Philosophy English, AB Philosophy English at Duke University
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
MFA Creative Writing, MFA Creative Writing at New York University
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