Erik Eppel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building tooling for data science and machine learning teams and recently joining Redis. He has a track record of shipping backend systems across startups and scale-oriented companies including Featureform, Databook, and Currency, often focusing on infrastructure that accelerates ML workflows. Based in Los Angeles, he blends formal training from Hack Reactor with a humanities background in comparative literature, bringing strong communication and systems-thinking to technical problems. Erik’s career shows a pattern of moving from product-focused startups to platform-level engineering, suggesting an aptitude for designing reusable, production-grade developer tools. He prefers backend work and tooling rather than front-end polish, making him effective at bridging data science needs with reliable engineering solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who converts research-oriented requirements into practical, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion Introduction to Web Development, Certificate of Completion Introduction to Web Development at Codecademy Labs
MA Comparative Literature, MA Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara
BA Comparative Literature & Italian, BA Comparative Literature & Italian at University of California, Davis
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
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