Erin Hochstatter is a software engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building web and native applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails, Swift for iOS, React, and React Native. She brings a designer’s sensibility from a Masters in Designed Objects and a background in art history, enabling thoughtful, user-centered product development. Her career spans hands-on roles from apprentice to senior consultant and engineer, currently contributing at Focused after senior positions at Eight Bit Studios and Tandem. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks, she’s expanding into Elixir, reflecting a continual curiosity for functional back-end approaches. Before tech she managed trademark portfolios as a paralegal, a detail-oriented foundation that informs her disciplined approach to engineering and project ownership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
iOS Development and Objective-C, iOS Development and Objective-C at Mobile Makers Academy
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Art History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Art History at Augustana College
Masters of Design in Designed Objects Industrial and Product Design, Masters of Design in Designed Objects Industrial and Product Design at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Personal project for (1) learning elixir and (2) learning to reflect on progress and accomplishment, relative to what's left to do (like a reverse to-do list)
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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