Summary
Erik Froese is a Lead Software Engineer based in Victoria, Australia, with 12 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and cloud-native services. He is a polyglot developer comfortable across Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Elixir and C, and experienced with front-end frameworks from React to Svelte and Angular. A Certified AWS Developer (Associate), Erik combines serverless and JAMstack architectures with tools like Elasticsearch, BuildKite and CircleCI to deliver reliable production systems. He pairs technical craft with strong writing skills—nominated for writing awards and trained in web writing and proofreading—which helps him communicate complex ideas clearly to teams and stakeholders. His background spans biology through intensive web development and digital marketing studies, an unusual blend that feeds a data-informed, user-centric approach to product work. Colleagues know him as an engineer who ships pragmatic solutions while keeping an eye for clarity in both code and copy.
12 years of coding experience
Diploma of Management, Diploma of Management at Service Industry Advisory Group
Web design, Web design at RMIT
Bachelor of Science, biology, Bachelor of Science, biology at The University of Calgary
The University of Melbourne
Organizational Leadership, Organizational Leadership at Leading Teams
Web Development Immersive, Website development, Web Development Immersive, Website development at General Assembly
Digital Marketing Certificate, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Distinction (first-in-class), Digital Marketing Certificate, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Distinction (first-in-class) at Association for Data-driven Marketing & Advertising
Powerful Proofreading and Editing, Powerful Proofreading and Editing at Swinburne University of Technology