Erin Pentecost is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building back-end systems, architecting distributed services, and leading technical teams across cloud-native and enterprise environments. Based in Oregon, she has driven platform and API work at companies like LaunchDarkly, Lytics, and Tanium, with deep hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, NoSQL stores, and CI/CD. Her background includes leading ML product development at Intel and stabilizing mission-critical load balancers and sidecars, reflecting a blend of operational rigor and product focus. An active open-source contributor, she improved vugufmt for the Vugu Go+WebAssembly UI library, demonstrating attention to developer tooling and cross-language formatting challenges. Collected experience in compiler-like REST API design, streaming optimizations, and database rebuild tooling shows she thrives on complex, systems-level problems that reduce operational cost and risk.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Oregon
Vugu: A modern UI library for Go+WebAssembly (experimental)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to the `vugu/vugu` repository by improving the `vugufmt` tool, which formats `.vugu` files. They ported `vugufmt` from its own repository, managed inter-tag indentation, and added support for `goimports`. Additionally, the user made changes to the core formatting logic, including modifications to error handling and code formatting.
Contributions:1 release, 123 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
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Erin Pentecost - Senior Software Engineer at Tanium