Erik Anderson
Sr Director, Continuous Improvement at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Anderson is a senior operations and product leader with 20+ years driving innovation and continuous improvement across Microsoft, IBM, startups, and nonprofit product advising. He combines deep Lean Six Sigma expertise and systems thinking with hands-on product, data science, and customer success experience to scale teams and turn collaboration data into actionable business transformation. As a founding member of multiple communities and startups, he blends empathetic, cross-functional leadership with operational rigor to build high-performing organizations. Based in Seattle, he now leads Continuous Improvement at Microsoft while advising purpose-driven organizations, bringing a rare mix of engineering roots, behavioral science partnerships, and real-world startup grit.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of WashingtonCertificate Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Certificate Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (66)
faas9
site-reliability-engineering9
kubernetes-resources9
operator-sdk9
chaos-engineering9
live-preview9
chaos8
mesh8
golang8
chaos-mesh8
serverless8
operator8
k8s8
reliability-engineering8
devops8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
erekgit/conjur-oss-helm-chart
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Helm chart for deploying Conjur OSS to Kubernetes
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
deployingcharthelmosshelm-chart
erekgit/website
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Source for Chaos Mesh website
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 month
chaosmeshchaos-mesh
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