Eric Larson
Head Of Core Platform
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Larson is a data-driven platform engineering leader with 14 years of experience building backend services, developer tooling, and data platforms, now managing Platform Engineering at Dagster Labs. He has a strong track record of uniting Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, and Analytics to deliver measurable customer value and reliable systems. Eric blends hands-on technical work—authoring CacheControl for Python Requests and contributing to OpenStack Designate—with people-centered leadership that emphasizes feedback, psychological safety, and outcome-focused processes. His background spans startups and scale-ups (co-founding a stealth startup and senior roles at DigitalOcean), giving him both product instinct and operational rigor. He brings practical expertise in caching, developer experience, and observability, and often seeks to replace guesswork with empathetic, metric-backed decision making. Based in Austin, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a knack for turning complex experiments into production-quality platforms.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) History, Bachelor of Arts (BA) History at University of HoustonBachelor of Science (BS) Information Sciences and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University - College of Information Sciences and Technology
Github Skills (15)
caching10
http-caching10
zeromq10
pytest10
python10
documentation10
http-request10
configuration-file9
configurations9
configuration-management9
unit-testing8
testing8
unit-test8
software-design8
logging7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
psf/cachecontrol
Jun 2012 - Sep 2022
The httplib2 caching algorithms packaged up for use with requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 331 commits, 94 PRs in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric's primary contributions involve porting and implementing caching functionality from the httplib2 library for use with the requests library. These changes included implementing a basic dictionary cache, adding tests to verify the caching methods work, and adding a few more test cases to cover different cache control scenarios like max-age, no-cache, and no-store. The user also refactored tests and implemented features to invalidate the cache on certain HTTP methods (PUT, DELETE).
cachinghttplib
circus-tent/circus
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
A Process & Socket Manager built with zmq
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Backend Developer
Technical Writer & Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the project's documentation, adding troubleshooting guides, configuration examples, and stream class explanations. They also refactored and improved existing documentation, ensuring accuracy and clarity. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements to the FancyStdoutStream, adding color and time formatting capabilities, suggesting backend development experience within the project's context.
socket
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