Summary
Erik Farmer is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead based in San Diego with 11 years of experience building data-driven platforms and pipelines for enterprise eCommerce and health insurance operations. He specializes in Python-based ETL, Airflow orchestration, Snowflake data warehousing, and production monitoring—helping teams turn messy operational data into trusted business insights. At PepsiCo he leads cross-functional design reviews and alignment to business OKRs, while at Clover Health he helped deliver an authorization engine that saved millions annually. Comfortable across the stack, he has migrated legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, implemented vendor integrations at scale, and reduced alert noise through smarter exception handling. Known for moving between hands-on coding and technical leadership, he also brings product-minded discipline from earlier roles in startup and corporate environments. Outside core engineering, his pragmatic experience includes operations-driven improvements like JIT inventory and customer-facing tooling that reflect a blend of technical rigor and business impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona