Erik Kerber
Build Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolErik Kerber is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in building and scaling large mobile applications, particularly across Apple platforms. He has led mobile platform teams and driven architectural initiatives at companies like Slack and Target, growing iOS programs from a single engineer to dozens of contributors. Deep expertise spans app architecture for large teams, Bazel-based build systems, mobile developer tools, CI/CD integrated with GitHub workflows, and both internal and external app distribution strategies. At Target he created the mobile platform team, led modularization and a Bazel migration that moved CI and local development forward, and at Slack he focuses on making mobile development at scale practical and repeatable. Erik also contributes to the iOS community through technical writing, conference work, and long-term consulting, bringing a blend of hands-on engineering and platform-level strategy. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs a Masters in Software Engineering with a pragmatic focus on developer experience that often reveals productivity gains behind the scenes.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSCE Computer Engineering, BSCE Computer Engineering at University of MinnesotaMasters of Science Software Engineering, Masters of Science Software Engineering at University of St. Thomas
English
Stackoverflow
5,646reputation
555kreached
46answers
39questions
xamarin
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
authentication10
xcodeproj10
maven10
linter10
linting10
firebase10
firebase-authentication10
static-analysis10
animation10
protocol-buffers10
push-notifications10
ai10
intellij-plugin10
swift10
firebase-database10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
eskerber/RVote
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:59 pushes, 27 branches in 3 months
erikkerber/rules_apple
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
Bazel rules to build apps for Apple platforms.
Contributions:43 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 5 months
bazelplatformsiosrulesapple
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