Erik Craddock
Principal Software Engineer at Northern Trust Corporation
Yukon, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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SeniorErik Craddock is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience building full-stack and DevOps tooling, currently focused on simplifying cloud engineering and developer workflows. He blends backend engineering in Go and Rust with frontend work in TypeScript/React and Angular, and has deep operational fluency in Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD automation. Erik has moved between enterprise environments and startups, co-founding fintech ventures early in his career and later delivering resilient APIs and platform tooling at companies like Northern Trust, UKG, and Ultimate Software. Comfortable leading teams or working independently, he often ships command-line utilities and pipeline integrations that quietly accelerate developer productivity. Based in Yukon, Oklahoma, he pairs pragmatic engineering with systems administration roots from his time running ISP infrastructure and as an Air Force systems/db administrator. That mix of entrepreneurial, operational and cloud-native experience makes him particularly effective at bridging developer needs with production-grade platform design.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (7)
task-management5
command-line4
obsidian4
mongodb2
task-manager2
markdown1
kubernetes-operator1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evcraddock/erikvancraddock-hugo
May 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
evcraddock/rott
Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
Record of Tagged Topics
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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