Erich Musick is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience building distributed backend systems and engaging front-end experiences. He has led architectural rewrites and shipped mission-critical services at Microsoft (notably modernizing the EDU Assignments Service and teaching Exchange Server to treat groups as mailboxes) and now drives platform work at Stripe. Comfortable across C#, Java, PHP and modern web stacks, he blends deep backend systems design with a lifelong passion for web UIs—having built his first website at 12. He has a proven track record of rapidly delivering complex projects, from doubling a small business’s revenue with a custom e-commerce system to increasing test coverage from under 1% to 40% on large codebases. A pragmatic collaborator, he routinely negotiates cross-team integrations and prioritizes high-quality, testable code. He plans to remain in Seattle long-term and brings both systems-level thinking and hands-on craft to product-focused engineering teams.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Valedictorian / High School Diploma, Valedictorian / High School Diploma at West Chicago CHS
B.S., Software Engineering, German Studies, B.S., Software Engineering, German Studies at Milwaukee School of Engineering
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