Erik Ness
Software Engineer at DoorDash
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolErik Ness is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, low-latency systems for companies like DoorDash, Microsoft, and Amazon. He currently contributes to DoorDash’s core platform, focusing on workflow orchestration and a distributed scheduler, having previously worked on Bing’s XAP graph execution engine that serves billions of queries daily. His background spans backend systems, distributed scheduling, and performance optimization, with early work in embedded networking and data analytics tooling showing a practical, systems-first mindset. Erik has a track record of improving runtime efficiency and developer platforms, from optimizing scanning routines at GM to integrating large market datasets for backtesting. Based in Seattle, he blends enterprise-scale engineering with hands-on problem solving across C#, Java, Python, and low-level C environments. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who enjoys turning complex, distributed problems into reliable, scalable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science / Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science / Mathematics at New Mexico State University
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Github Skills (34)
dotnet10
memorystream10
dotnet-core10
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csharp10
linux9
xamarin9
fsharp9
azure8
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cross-platform8
desktop8
revit-api7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erikness/PointClickCluster
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
erikness/AnomalyDetection
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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