Jon Erickson
Co-Founder at Leasecake
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Erickson is a Principal Architect and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, user-centric web applications and cloud-native systems. Currently driving AI-assisted lease management and accounting at Leasecake, he blends hands-on Laravel backend work, Dockerized deployments, and AWS/GCP CI/CD to deliver reliable production systems. He previously led engineering at Elios Fund, overseeing a solar financing platform that processed over $100M in monthly sales, and maintains an active open-source presence improving popular Laravel tooling and GitHub Actions automation. Jon's background as a paramedic and instructor informs a pragmatic, mission-focused approach to engineering and team collaboration, bringing calm decision-making to high-stakes operational environments. Based in Bend, Oregon, he combines entrepreneurial-built product experience with deep technical craft to translate complex business needs into maintainable, extensible software.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Fire Services Administration | Communications, Bachelor of Science - BS, Fire Services Administration | Communications at Eastern Oregon University
Github Skills (19)
git10
github-ci10
laravel-mix10
testing10
configuration-management10
laravel10
php10
backup10
githubaction-workflow10
dependency-injection10
sem9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
javascript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spatie/laravel-backup
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
A package to backup your Laravel app
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jon made several commits related to refactoring and improving the codebase of the Laravel backup package. Their work includes removing unnecessary code, such as constructors from interfaces and modifying the temporary directory implementation. They introduced flexibility in the package by allowing the overriding of default implementations and removing a contract and adapter. The user focused on improving the package's structure and configuration to allow for better customizability.
devopsphpzipdatabaselaravel
mathieudutour/github-tag-action
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
A Github Action to automatically bump and tag master, on merge, with the latest SemVer formatted version. Works on any platform.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 11 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the automation and testing aspects of the project. Their work involved modifying the GitHub Action to handle prerelease versions, including adding logic to increment prerelease numbers and adding tests to ensure the correct behavior. They also added logic to prevent tagging if certain conditions aren't met. The changes focused on the action's core functionality of automatically bumping and tagging software versions.
mergemasterformattedsemver
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