Erik Englund
Senior Software Development Engineer at WEX
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolErik Englund is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 10+ years building and modernizing backend systems, specializing in Java, Groovy, containerization, and cloud-native deployments across Azure AKS and OpenShift. He has led large migrations and DevOps transformations—most notably orchestrating a zero-downtime microservice move from OpenShift to AKS and migrating CI from Jenkins to GitHub Actions at scale. As a former founder and CEO, he combines hands-on architecture and coding with people leadership, now managing a team responsible for DevOps deployments and infrastructure. His background includes deep client-side IDE work with Eclipse RCP and a history of modularizing legacy monoliths into REST and gRPC services, reflecting a pragmatic perfectionism: he prefers taking the time to craft durable solutions over quick fixes. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a blend of entrepreneurial grit and enterprise delivery experience that improves developer experience and system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (29)
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
rpc10
protobuf10
marshalling9
protoc9
docker8
grpc-java8
java8
jvm7
git6
eclipse-plugin6
javafx6
exceptions6
corba6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
efenglu/maven
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Example project containing a pom with lots of plugins
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 13 days
efenglu/japicc-plugin
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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