Erik Tate
Software Engineer at Teleport
Hampstead, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolErik Tate is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud infrastructure, distributed services, data pipelines, and reactive UIs. He has advanced from application developer roles to senior engineering and tech lead positions at companies including Rocket Money and Capital One, and currently contributes to Teleport. Erik emphasizes customer value as the primary success metric, pairing technical breadth with a focus on user experience and reliable delivery. Comfortable across the stack, he moves between tooling, backend systems, and frontend work to unblock teams and ship end-to-end solutions. Based in Hampstead, NC, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering practices and a history of mentoring and operational ownership. A former theater-of-operations manager turned engineer, he brings unusually strong operational empathy to incident response and system reliability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at West Virginia University Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Marshall University
English
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Github Skills (73)
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bastion10
rdp10
security10
infrastructure10
pam10
ssh10
golang10
rbac10
kubernetes10
database-access10
audit10
certificate10
go10
teleport10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
TerbiumLabs/libfp
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
A library for fingerprinting data
Contributions:8 releases, 12 PRs, 72 pushes in 9 months
fingerprinting
eriktate/docshelf
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
Light weight, easy to use documentation management
Contributions:59 PRs, 101 pushes, 57 branches in 1 year 6 months
light-weightlightproductivitydocumentation-toolmarkdown
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