Hi, I'm Eric.
I'm a Software Engineer, based in California. I ❤️ the web.
I grew up in the Midwest and started my career as a software engineer at the University of Michigan. Go Blue! I maintained websites and built APIs for the University's 19 libraries.
Then, Google called me up. I moved out to California and joined the Chrome Developer Relations team. For many years, my work was focused heavily in open source, where I led initiatives across web performance, tools/libraries, and developer education. The goal was to make external developers successful building for the modern web. I helped shape early web standards like W3C web components and built + launched popular tools like Lighthouse, Yeoman, Polymer, web.dev, and html5rocks.com. I also had fun along the way, collaborating on Google Santa Tracker and and the Google I/O web app.
In 2011, I authored "Using the HTML5 Filesystem API" to claim that very important O'Reilly cover--an Australian Greyhound.
In 2019, I joined Lyft. I led teams in Design System, web platform, and Rider Growth, where we pioneered new products such as the Rider App PWA, Rentals, and Call A Lyft. In addition to product work, I drove platform investments for the Infra, Business, Identity, and Integrity teams.
In 2023, I went to Yahoo to lead investments in client foundations, design systems, and modernize an aging tech stack for the world's largest sites.
My latest adventure is at Robinhood, where I lead Robinhood Legend, a web-based day trading platform.