Erik Eldridge
Staff Engineer at Google
Burlingame, California, United States
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Top SchoolErik 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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Github Skills (37)
objective-c10
firebase-authentication10
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
firebase-remote-config10
typescript10
authentication10
android-sdk10
firebase-realtime-database10
push-notifications10
analytics10
firebase-admin10
google10
android10
ai10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
erikeldridge/dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
erikeldridge/erikeldridge.github.com
Jan 2015 - Jul 2026
erikeldridge.github.com
Contributions:6 PRs, 594 pushes, 3 branches in 11 years 7 months
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