Erik Kastner
Staff Software Engineer at Lumos Labs (Lumosity)
Metuchen, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolErik Kastner is a Staff Software Engineer with 19 years building web products, currently shaping experiences at Lumos Labs after leadership and engineering roles at Etsy, Kickstarter, and Lumosity. He specializes in Rails, PHP, view integration, and testing, with a long history of crafting front-end/back-end integrations and shipping user-facing features at scale. Erik’s career blends startup grit—launching his contracting site Meta | ateM and consumer projects like Spell With Flickr—with senior architecture work as Kickstarter’s Lead Architect. He has a knack for turning playful experiments (e.g., Color Wars) into production-quality systems and for overengineering toward robust, testable solutions. Based in Metuchen, NJ, he combines deep practical experience with a clear goal to “change the world” through thoughtful web engineering.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Brookdale Community CollegeOcean Township High School
Stackoverflow
171reputation
18kreached
4answers
3questions
Github Skills (109)
statsd10
ruby10
javascript10
graphite10
linux10
golang10
counter10
nodejs10
homebrew10
daemon10
cli9
sketchup9
shell9
react9
vbscript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kastner/fifteen
Sep 2007 - Jul 2008
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
kastner/ruby-junk
Jun 2008 - Oct 2014
my random ruby scripts
Contributions:44 commits in 6 years 5 months
rubysketchup
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