Summary
Trey Eckels is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native platforms and leading UI-centric engineering teams. He has led teams of nine engineers at Pindrop, established a company-wide UI Guild, and blends hands-on coding with product ownership to align technical work to business goals. His background spans full-stack engineering across major publishers and tech firms—shipping accessibility, i18n, and CSS architecture initiatives at LinkedIn and large CMS and editorial systems at The Washington Post and Boston Globe. Trey also mentors junior engineers and has taught full-stack bootcamps for Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota, which informs his emphasis on developer best practices and documentation. He holds advanced training in organizational leadership and data analytics, pairing people-focused management with technical depth. Based in Atlanta, he’s known for driving cross-team projects and unblocking teams through pragmatic design decisions and frequent hands-on involvement.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Big Data and Social Analytics Certificate Big Data and Social Analytics Certificate, Big Data and Social Analytics Certificate Big Data and Social Analytics Certificate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BAJ Journalism, BAJ Journalism at Indiana University Bloomington
Master of Science - MS Organizational Leadership, Master of Science - MS Organizational Leadership at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computer Software Engineering cs50, Computer Software Engineering cs50 at Harvard Extension School
English