Erik Tank
Senior Engineer II at Carvana
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorErik Tank is a Senior Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing high-throughput, production-critical systems across streaming, ticketing, and platform automation. He has led cross-functional teams to design DRM integrations, stabilize pricing platforms, and recover lost data while driving measurable improvements like reducing Kafka DRM key errors from 27% to 1% and shrinking release assets by 84%. Comfortable across Go, Java, TypeScript, and legacy systems (including custom VAX integrations), he blends pragmatic engineering patterns with automation to shorten deploys and improve observability. A hands-on mentor and process improver, Erik institutionalizes upgrade patterns, CI/CD practices, and team ownership to make teams more resilient. Outside of code he’s an avid outdoorsman, CrossFit Level 1 coach, and former film lighting/electric tinkerer—backgrounds that inform his practical, human-centered approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (58)
http-api10
perl10
inspector10
bazel-rules10
json9
java9
mock-server9
mocking9
rest9
bazel9
stubbing9
wiremock9
xml9
alfred-workflow8
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
skeletonkey/rachio-next-run
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
Remind me when my next Rachio schedule will run.
Contributions:1 review, 29 PRs, 70 pushes in 7 months
skeletonkey/lib-instance-gen-go
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Library for starting new Go applications allowing for creating and updating common files.
Contributions:15 releases, 32 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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