Summary
Eric Wheeler is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google based in Sydney with nine years of experience evolving from front-end engineer to technical lead and manager across Google Play, Project Fi, Google Pay, and Reserve with Google. He combines a strong academic foundation (M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke) with practical expertise in Java, front-end frameworks, and machine learning tooling such as TensorFlow and scikit-learn. Known for bridging product and platform concerns, he has led teams that delivered user-facing mobile and payments experiences at scale. His toolkit spans web stacks (Next.js, Tailwind), data science workflows (NumPy, pandas, notebooks), and embedded/electrical engineering thinking from his early research days. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical constraints into pragmatic roadmaps while mentoring engineers through delivery and architecture trade-offs. Outside core duties, he maintains hands-on fluency in Python ML stacks, signaling a continuing interest in applied ML and data-driven product improvements.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University