Erik Wiffin is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling remote teams and guiding startups from MVP to fundraising-ready organizations. As a fractional tech lead and former director-level manager, he blends hands-on development, architecture and infrastructure planning with hiring, mentorship, and organizational design to increase engineering velocity. He excels at creating psychologically safe environments that retain talent through change — achieving zero unregretted attrition during a major product pivot. Comfortable rolling up his sleeves, Erik has contributed full-stack work and front-end refinements in open-source projects, including refactoring a floating-point math demo to Jekyll and improving multi-language samples and layout. Based in Denver, he partners with founders who need senior technical leadership without the cost of a full-time hire, bringing pragmatic, startup-tested approaches to delivery and team growth.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, New Media and Animation, Advanced Diploma, New Media and Animation at Loyalist College
Contributions:3 reviews, 137 commits, 164 PRs in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the front-end, adding new languages and samples. The user also updated CSS styling, specifically for wide columns. Additionally, the user refactored the project to use Jekyll and added more content. Finally, the user updated the layout to show content rather than the excerpt.
Contributions:108 commits, 105 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 7 months
testingsciencesuitesync
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Erik Wiffin - Fractional Tech Lead at Wiffin Consulting, LLC