Eric Holmes
Founding Engineer at Padder
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEric Holmes is a founding engineer and seasoned technology executive with 11 years of experience scaling SaaS products, engineering teams, and secure, high-performance platforms for enterprise customers. He has grown teams from single digits to 23 engineers while maintaining top-tier retention and led the launch of a bootstrapped standalone SaaS product that drove measurable ARR growth. A pragmatic systems thinker, Eric has operationalized compliance (SOC2 Type I & II) with clean audits and led a rapid shift from Agile to Shape Up, cutting delivery drift by 75%. He blends hands-on full-stack delivery with metrics-driven product prioritization and a low-ego leadership style focused on mentorship and accountability. Based in Newmarket, Ontario, he thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution—turning security, performance, and process improvements into competitive advantages.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Multimedia Web Design and Development, Advanced Multimedia Web Design and Development at Fanshawe College
English
Github Skills (26)
sentry8
reactstrap8
react8
sdk8
hardware8
javascript-client8
raven8
react-bootstrap8
bootstrap8
javascript7
mobile7
vue7
ember7
angular7
typescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pressoholics/SrcSetPlugin
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 16 pushes, 2 tags in 9 months
ewholmes/passport-jwt-mock
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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