Erich Ess
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolErich Ess is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building highly available, distributed systems and leading cross-functional teams in the Greater Chicago area. He has driven large-scale messaging and SOA initiatives—designing architectures that supported half a million devices at GreatCall and robust web services at Verizon—while championing agile, test-driven development and automation that dramatically reduced regression cycles. A double major in Mathematics and Computer Science from Purdue, he combines rigorous analytical research with pragmatic engineering, frequently mentoring teams and refining organizational processes. Notably, he translates UX research into iterative prototypes to accelerate feedback loops for complex enterprise applications.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Purdue University
Github Skills (72)
data-stream10
postgresql10
distributed-tracing10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
stream-processing10
serverless10
monitoring10
async10
stream10
sql10
ksqldb10
golang10
rust10
database10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bramble-lang/bramble-lang
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Experimental language so that I can try implementing coroutines. Purely about learning.
Contributions:147 reviews, 155 PRs, 487 pushes in 2 months
language-designcoroutinesexperimental-languageconcurrency
erichgess/erichgess.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:69 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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