Erik Kessler
Staff Software Engineer at Salsify
Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Kessler is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, full-stack systems and platform tools, currently focused on maintaining Salsify’s most critical services. He led development of Salsify’s Workflow engine, App Center marketplace, and unified GraphQL federation, bringing extensibility and collaboration features to production products. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he has driven integrations for major retailers and built platform administration and auditing capabilities. A former founder who shipped iOS and Android apps, he pairs entrepreneurial pragmatism with a strong emphasis on mentoring and knowledge sharing. Based in Williamstown, MA, he favors designing extensible solutions that balance long-term architecture with day-to-day developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Williams College
Github Skills (73)
eager-loading10
avro10
javascript10
graphql-js10
rails-console10
graphql10
firebase-authentication9
delayed-job9
push-notifications9
firebase-messaging9
firebase-database9
authentication9
ruby-on-rails9
firebase9
firebase-storage9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
erikkessler1/dotfiles
Nov 2018 - Jul 2026
Configuration for bash, emacs, and more.
Contributions:3 PRs, 36 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 9 months
bashemacs
salsify/salsify_rubocop
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Salsify shared RuboCop configuration and experimental cops
Contributions:22 reviews, 6 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years
rubocopgem
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