Erik Lucus
Principal Product Manager at New Relic, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolErik Lucus is a Principal Product Manager based in Portland with a six-year product career built on a deep software engineering foundation spanning two decades in finance and trading systems. He has led cross-functional teams at New Relic and Cboe Global Markets, driving revenue-positive product rebuilds (notably an 18% lift for LiveVol Pro) while minimizing churn and productizing APIs that replaced legacy data vendors. Comfortable in Agile Scrum and PMI-ACP certified, Erik blends hands-on engineering (C#, Java, REST APIs, FIX integrations) with strategic product vision to deliver developer-facing tools and enterprise features. He has a rare combination of exchange-facing trading systems experience and SaaS observability product leadership, enabling him to translate complex technical requirements into commercial offerings. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication across multiple engineering teams and for creating practical, interactive developer content that accelerates API adoption.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at California State University, Chico
Github Skills (27)
ruby10
newrelic10
agent10
apm-agent10
asciidoc9
net9
backlog9
opentelemetry8
documentation8
java-agent7
dotnet7
opencensus6
telemetry5
python5
monitoring4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elucus/docs-website
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Source code for the New Relic documentation site.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
requirements-managementdocumentation-siterelicnew-relic
elucus/microservices-demo
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Sample cloud-native application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, gRPC and OpenCensus.
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
cloud-sampleskaffoldgrpcistiokubernetes
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