Erick Peirson
Principal Software Engineer at Anomalo
City of Utica, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErick Peirson is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing resilient, secure distributed systems and leading platform engineering at Anomalo. He combines deep engineering and management experience—moving from hands-on software and infrastructure roles to Director-level platform leadership—with a research background in complexity, evolutionary biology, and the history and philosophy of science. Erick is a DevSecOps evangelist who mentors teams to build evolvable systems and operationalize security across the stack. His career blends academia and industry, from leading arXiv.org’s next-generation architecture to directing platform engineering at data-focused startups. An unusual strength is his formal training in evolutionary biology and computational research, which he leverages to model system resilience and long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biology (Biology & Society), PhD Biology (Biology & Society) at Arizona State UniversityB.S. Biology, B.S. Biology at University of Puget Sound
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
diging/tethne-docs
Aug 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
arXiv/zzzArchived_arxiv-references
Jun 2017 - May 2018
arXiv reference extraction and linking
Contributions:255 commits, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 10 months
extractionpythonarxivlinkinglinguistics
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