Summary
Garvice Eakins is a Director of Engineering specializing in building data platforms and real-time intelligence engines that turn raw event streams into customer-facing products. With 8+ years of leadership in scale-up environments, he has guided teams through Series B-to-IPO growth—scaling organizations to 65+ engineers and upgrading systems to process 500TB+ of data per day. He combines hands-on architecture (event-driven Kafka/Flink, Snowflake, Lakehouse design) with product focus, having written V1 code for revenue-generating features like Dynamic View and NL2SQL-powered "Talk to Your Data". Pragmatic about operational maturity, he introduced data contracts and automated cost "circuit breakers" to rein in cloud spend while improving data SLAs from hours to seconds. Known for turning legacy, hero-driven engineering into systematic, autonomous organizations, he grows managers into directors and engineers into principals. Based in Everett, WA, he blends deep backend engineering with a knack for shipping productized data capabilities that enable Generative AI use cases.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Software Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Software Engineering Computer Science at University of Washington