Erik Eldridge is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable services and developer tooling across web and mobile platforms, currently based in Burlingame, California. He has led multi-year migrations of high-QPS services to modern infrastructure at Google, minimizing operational cost while shepherding teams through acquisitions and shutdowns. Previously at Twitter he built core onboarding and phone-authentication services, enabling experimentation and measurable product improvements across Android, mobile web, and backend systems. Comfortable across Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, and Scala, he blends frontend UX work with backend and platform engineering. Known for mentoring and cross-team collaboration, he has driven API cohesion through review committees and grown small teams into effective engineering groups. A background in developer evangelism and identity systems gives him a knack for reducing customer friction during complex technical transitions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at California State University San Marcos
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