Erik Torres
Software Engineer II at 343 Industries
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolErik Torres is a C++20 software engineer with nine years of experience building high‑reliability systems, currently working as Software Engineer II at Microsoft and 343 Industries in the Seattle area. He has a track record of shipping production software across consumer and platform teams, with earlier experience teaching programming and building automated test suites during internships. Erik contributes to the well-known ICU internationalization project as a back-end developer and release manager, handling versioning, refactors, and bug fixes that keep cross‑platform libraries release-ready. Comfortable in both individual contributor and collaborative environments, he blends low‑level C++ expertise with practical release engineering skills. His background spans academic training in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey and work that bridges product-quality code and tooling for dependable releases.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Tecnológico de MonterreyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (10)
release-management10
build-automation10
icu4c10
unicode10
java9
cprogramming-language9
cplus9
c-language9
cpp9
javas9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/icu
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Release Manager
Back-end Developer & Release ManagerContributions:65 reviews, 22 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on updating version numbers and regenerating configuration files related to the ICU4C and ICU4J projects. Their contributions involved updating the version across multiple files, including those related to data, and jar files. These updates occurred with major, minor, and patch versions, which included updates to the readmes, ensuring the project was updated across the board, and for new releases. They also made code changes in response to bugs/defects found, as well as for refactoring.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
erik0686/icu
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
The new home of the ICU project source code.
Contributions:81 pushes, 23 branches in 8 months
icu
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