Tom Erskine
Staff SDE at Pindrop
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTom Erskine is a Staff Software Development Engineer based in Austin with eight years of experience building and leading backend engineering efforts across e-commerce, analytics, and security domains. He progressed from QA and test engineering into leadership roles at Magento/Adobe and ThousandEyes before joining Pindrop, combining deep hands-on implementation with team and data-driven leadership. A frequent contributor to Magento Inventory (MSI), Tom has improved core inventory source selection, transfer workflows, and catalog-search integrations—work that underscores his expertise in complex supply-chain and shipping logic. He pairs a practical, test-first engineering background with experience scaling systems in large enterprise products, and brings an uncommon legal-education perspective to risk-aware decision making.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law at Northumbria University
Github Skills (16)
inventory-management-system10
php10
inventory-management10
magento10
product-catalog9
cqrs9
catalog9
api8
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
phpunit8
amazon-elasticsearch8
apidoc8
aws-elasticsearch8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
magento/inventory
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Magento Inventory Project (a.k.a MSI)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the Magento Inventory (MSI) project, focusing on back-end development. Their commits involve changes across multiple core areas, including source selection algorithms, inventory transfer processes, and catalog search integration. They are implementing features related to source selection, and the modifications span several classes and interfaces within the inventory management and shipping workflow. These updates indicate an active role in enhancing and maintaining the inventory management functionalities.
inventorymsiphpmagento2cqrs
magento/magento-semver
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Magento Semantic Versioning Checker. Join #svc in our Community Slack: https://opensource.magento.com/slack. Static tests that identify required module version changes based on code diff, and look for backward incompatible changes.
Contributions:27 commits in 3 months
code-difflookmagentosemanticsvc
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