Summary
Erik Florida is a software engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on full-stack experience who now leads React-based product teams from Huntington Beach, CA. He combines deep front-end craftsmanship—performance, scalability, and UX—with active ownership of architecture and developer experience, often contributing code alongside his engineers. Erik has a track record of modernizing large applications (Macy’s migrations, enterprise Node platforms) and shipping B2B procurement and browser-extension products. He values improving developer workflows as much as user-facing features, and is exploring AI to boost dev productivity at Raiven. Comfortable as a solo contributor or team leader, he brings breadth across web, mobile hybrid, and UI tooling that helps teams move faster without sacrificing quality. Outside work he channels entrepreneurial curiosity into running and craft beer, reflecting a pragmatic, opportunity-seeking mindset.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Drexel University
AA: Information Technology Multimedia and Visual Communications, AA: Information Technology Multimedia and Visual Communications at University of Phoenix