Michael Erb
Software Engineer at Flying Junction, LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Erb is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping Ruby on Rails applications for startups, enterprises, and nonprofits. Based in Portland, he blends full-stack engineering with architecture and team leadership—having led international teams, mentored engineers, and authored reusable Ruby gems and services for integrations, A/B testing, and eventing. His portfolio spans HIPAA-compliant healthcare apps, high-throughput file transfer systems using JRuby for Java crypto, and SaaS products like intelligent outbound dialing and survey-driven marketing integrations. Comfortable interfacing with product and business owners, he also has deep operational experience in deployments, test suites, and upgrading legacy Rails/Ruby stacks. A former competitive volleyball player, Detroit native and pilot, he brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach and a taste for practical engineering trade-offs that keep projects shipping.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics, B.A. Mathematics at Michigan State University
Github Skills (22)
rails-gem10
ruby10
homebrew10
bootstrap9
twitter-bootstrap9
jquery-ui9
twitter-bootstrap-rails8
timepicker7
datepicker7
rails6
continuous-integration4
resque3
activerecord3
ruby-on-rails3
jruby2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bouchard/srfax
Sep 2020 - Feb 2026
SrFax
Contributions:4 PRs in 5 years 5 months
erbmicha/srfax
Sep 2020 - Feb 2026
SrFax
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 5 months
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