Jon Erickson
Software Engineer II at Uber
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJon Erickson is a Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed backend systems across consumer platforms and retail. He has driven product-focused engineering at Twitch and TikTok—shipping creator-facing features and trust & safety tooling—and now contributes to Uber's Vehicles Platform. Jon combines strong computer science foundations (MS, Georgia Tech; BS, University of Washington) with pragmatic craftsmanship: designing simple, modular, testable services that operate at scale. He has led orchestration and catalog initiatives at Nordstrom and payments back-end work for in-store systems, demonstrating an ability to bridge product needs and operational reliability. Comfortable across high-throughput video and commerce domains, he brings steady execution on complex, cross-team problems. Based in Renton, WA, he is a backend-focused engineer who prefers durable simplicity over cleverness when solving distributed systems challenges.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatics at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github contributions (5)
jnericks/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:76 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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jnericks/testlib-java
Dec 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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