Erik Wright
Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Data Platform
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Wright is a seasoned infrastructure and data platform leader with 14 years of experience building and operating scalable streaming, storage, and query systems at Shopify and earlier roles at Google and startups. He blends deep hands-on engineering in Java, Python, C++ and distributed systems with people leadership—having managed a 20-person organization and multiple subteams delivering real-time analytics, fraud detection, and developer-facing data services. Erik has shepherded platforms built on Druid, Flink, Spark, Beam/Dataflow and Shopify QL to provide end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and serving for product and data science teams. A serial entrepreneur and early internet startup veteran since age 15, he pairs pragmatic startup instincts with large-scale production experience. Known for recruiting and customer-focused engineering, he also runs customer success for data platform consumers, translating ambiguous requirements into deployable, observable pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop's College School
French, English
Github Skills (43)
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shopify8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oliver-fisher/hello_app
Aug 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-appruby
Shopify/pylint
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 day
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