Eric Black
Principal Software Engineer at Heroku
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Black is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience at Heroku, where he’s progressed from senior engineer to principal while owning the CLI, Dashboard, and developer tooling platform. He drives large-scale technical modernization—authoring architectural RFCs, leading a full CLI ESM migration and yarn→npm upgrade, and delivering measurable performance gains through telemetry refactoring and lazy-loading. Comfortable from hands-on coding to cross-functional technical leadership, he unifies SDK, CLI, extension, and dashboard efforts into a shared TypeScript strategy and monorepo vision. Eric also leads infrastructure and security initiatives across testing, error tracking, and dependency hygiene, and champions practical AI-assisted development via custom agents and AGENTS.md. Based in San Jose, he pairs a systems-level perspective with strong product sensitivity, consistently turning long-term architecture into shipped improvements developers notice.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Psychology, B.S., Computer Science, Psychology at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (39)
heroku-toolbelt10
heroku-api10
heroku-cli10
heroku-connect10
multiple-accounts10
heroku10
core-services9
cli9
kafka7
oauth6
react6
nodejs6
web-components6
ember5
vscode-extension5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/heroku-slugs
Apr 2020 - Jun 2026
CLI Plugin to manage downloading of slugs
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 18 PRs in 6 years 2 months
cliheroku-cli-pluginheroku
heroku/heroku-cli-plugin-ai
Dec 2024 - Jun 2026
Heroku AI CLI plugin
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
aicliheroku
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