ericclemmons · August 19, 2025 15:12
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    "name": "Eric Clemmons",
    "label": "Open-source author and technical leader",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(832) 414-7673",
    "url": "https://ericclemmons.com",
    "summary": "Open-source author and technical leader specializing in full-stack applications with ergonomic APIs. 17+ years of experience scaling engineering teams and delivering high-impact solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Expert in navigating ambiguity for remote & hybrid teams by working backwards from user experience, with a proven track record of reducing costs while improving performance and developer productivity.",
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      "region": "TX",
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      "name": "TestDriver.ai",
      "position": "CTO",
      "startDate": "2025-05-12",
      "summary": "Leading production-readiness of vision-based AI testing platform for enterprise customers as technical co-founder",
      "highlights": [
        "Reduced managed infrastructure costs by 50% while architecting solution to drop costs to ~0",
        "Leading production-readiness of vision-based AI testing platform for enterprise customers",
        "Stood up scalable development methodologies, observability, and created technical roadmap",
        "Architecting self-hosting, type-safe solutions with deterministic testing and competitive performance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "honor",
      "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2023-03-06",
      "endDate": "2025-05-09",
      "summary": "Led innovation team implementing event-driven architecture and automation solutions",
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered $80k-$120k monthly savings through care coordination automation, eliminating need for 3 support staff",
        "Led innovation team implementing event-driven \"strangler fig\" pattern for manual process automation",
        "Reduced PR deployment time by 6x (23 minutes → 4 minutes)",
        "Established Design System adoption metrics monitoring and self-service component authoring guidance",
        "Created atomic, commit-based preview environments for improved development workflow"
      ]
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    {
      "name": "Stripe",
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      "startDate": "2022-01-01",
      "endDate": "2023-01-01",
      "summary": "Domain Lead for Connect's embedded surfaces team during organizational scaling challenges",
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        "Domain Lead for Connect's embedded surfaces team during organizational scaling challenges",
        "Architected iframe-based UI embedding strategy for secure payment integration on third-party sites",
        "Built comprehensive testing platform with HAR-based mocking and cross-tool behavioral test adapters",
        "Led technical strategy for Shadow DOM alternatives and style isolation in embedded environments"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "position": "Senior Front-End Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-09-01",
      "endDate": "2022-01-01",
      "summary": "Technical lead for 10-person cross-platform UI team delivering cloud-connected components",
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        "Technical lead for 10-person cross-platform UI team delivering cloud-connected components",
        "Pioneered \"docs-driven development\" with evergreen documentation using embedded E2E tests",
        "Architected platform-agnostic business logic (XState) with framework-specific thin clients",
        "Closed every UI-related issue in Amplify JS repository through zero-config component strategy",
        "Led Next.js SSR compatibility development, making Amplify JS thread-safe without breaking changes"
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      "position": "Lead Platform Engineer",
      "startDate": "2018-03-01",
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      "summary": "Built and led 6-engineer team architecting unified GraphQL API for mobile and web platforms",
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        "Built and led 6-engineer team architecting unified GraphQL API for Android, iOS, and Web PWA",
        "Reduced mobile payloads from 300kb to 15kb with significant 3G performance improvements",
        "Transformed deployment pipeline from manual hours-long process to 1-minute deployments with instant rollback",
        "Created living documentation through Storybook prototypes, eliminating traditional documentation maintenance"
      ]
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      "name": "HigherEducation.com",
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        "Scaled company from 15 to 150 employees while growing development team to 12 engineers",
        "Increased core business KPI by 40% (2.8 to 3.9) through architectural and performance optimizations",
        "Architected monetization platform serving millions of monthly placements via single-script embed",
        "Achieved breakthrough performance improvements: TTFB 250ms→40ms, query optimization 800ms→150ms",
        "Implemented Docker-based continuous deployment (2015), enabling 1-minute infrastructure recovery",
        "Reduced partner onboarding from 2 weeks to days through normalized API and contract-driven development"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "WhiteFence",
      "position": "Web Application Architect",
      "startDate": "2007-04-01",
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      "summary": "Relaunched utility comparison platform with significant UX and performance improvements",
      "highlights": [
        "Relaunched utility comparison platform reducing user onboarding from 60+ seconds to seconds",
        "Increased monthly revenue by $12k (9%) through GeoIP personalization and UX optimization",
        "Built custom DNS-based split-testing platform eliminating third-party performance impacts",
        "Implemented progressive loading architecture with XHR background data fetching"
      ]
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        "Kubernetes",
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      "url": "https://alchemy.run",
      "description": "Contributed Vercel, Neon, & Cloudflare Resources",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "<ClickToComponent />",
      "url": "https://github.com/ericclemmons/click-to-component",
      "description": "Option+Click React components in your browser to instantly open the source in your IDE"
    },
    {
      "name": "Amplify Visor",
      "description": "🏆 1st-place in AWS Amplify Hackathon",
      "url": "https://github.com/ericclemmons/amplify-visor"
    },
    {
      "name": "node-recorder",
      "description": "Simple recording & replaying of HTTP requests for predictable development & testing",
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    {
      "name": "Will Stern",
      "reference": "Eric is a fantastic leader. During my six years on his team, he guided a high-growth startup through a period of remarkable success. I look back on it as the most enjoyable and one of the more transformative experiences of my career. Eric is excellent at building lean teams with an outsized impact. I especially appreciated his focus on continually identifying innovative \"technical levers\" that can be used to multiply developer effort. Eric also cultivates a strong, empowering culture where every team member feels ownership and autonomy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Erich Rahm",
      "reference": "I was pretty newly a senior engineer but I liked the ownership you gave us in the products we were building. I felt empowered to make decisions and build things that I thought would benefit the products. I realize that some of this had to do with us not really having a PM but I liked it. It felt to me like you did a good job of filtering out most of the bullshit so that we could just focus on designing and building software. My struggle ever since has been to find another job where I actually felt ownership in the product. I'm 100% uninterested in being a code monkey and it's really hard for me to care about something if I'm not making design decisions the way I was at HE."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saul Maddox",
      "reference": "Eric Clemmons is one of the best leaders I have ever had the opportunity to work with. His mentorship not only reshaped my approach to software development and company management but also taught me the value of thoughtful, people-centric leadership. His guidance has truly transformed my professional journey, and I continue to apply the lessons he imparted on me every day."
    },
    {
      "name": "Evan Kaufman",
      "reference": "Eric was everything positive one looks for in an engineering manager: He always listened to the concerns of his direct reports, acting on them whenever possible; He shielded those under him from outside interference so that we could focus on our work instead of death by a thousand meetings; He was proactive in facilitating cross team collaboration and acted in the best interests of the business as a whole."
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	"email": "[email protected]",
	"phone": "(832) 414-7673",
	"url": "https://ericclemmons.com",
	"summary": "Open-source author and technical leader specializing in full-stack applications with ergonomic APIs. 17+ years of experience scaling engineering teams and delivering high-impact solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Expert in navigating ambiguity for remote & hybrid teams by working backwards from user experience, with a proven track record of reducing costs while improving performance and developer productivity.",
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	"position": "CTO",
	"startDate": "2025-05-12",
	"summary": "Leading production-readiness of vision-based AI testing platform for enterprise customers as technical co-founder",
	"highlights": [
	"Reduced managed infrastructure costs by 50% while architecting solution to drop costs to ~0",
	"Leading production-readiness of vision-based AI testing platform for enterprise customers",
	"Stood up scalable development methodologies, observability, and created technical roadmap",
	"Architecting self-hosting, type-safe solutions with deterministic testing and competitive performance"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "honor",
	"position": "Staff Software Engineer",
	"startDate": "2023-03-06",
	"endDate": "2025-05-09",
	"summary": "Led innovation team implementing event-driven architecture and automation solutions",
	"highlights": [
	"Delivered $80k-$120k monthly savings through care coordination automation, eliminating need for 3 support staff",
	"Led innovation team implementing event-driven \"strangler fig\" pattern for manual process automation",
	"Reduced PR deployment time by 6x (23 minutes → 4 minutes)",
	"Established Design System adoption metrics monitoring and self-service component authoring guidance",
	"Created atomic, commit-based preview environments for improved development workflow"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "Stripe",
	"position": "Staff Software Engineer",
	"startDate": "2022-01-01",
	"endDate": "2023-01-01",
	"summary": "Domain Lead for Connect's embedded surfaces team during organizational scaling challenges",
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	"Domain Lead for Connect's embedded surfaces team during organizational scaling challenges",
	"Architected iframe-based UI embedding strategy for secure payment integration on third-party sites",
	"Built comprehensive testing platform with HAR-based mocking and cross-tool behavioral test adapters",
	"Led technical strategy for Shadow DOM alternatives and style isolation in embedded environments"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "AWS Amplify",
	"position": "Senior Front-End Engineer",
	"startDate": "2019-09-01",
	"endDate": "2022-01-01",
	"summary": "Technical lead for 10-person cross-platform UI team delivering cloud-connected components",
	"highlights": [
	"Technical lead for 10-person cross-platform UI team delivering cloud-connected components",
	"Pioneered \"docs-driven development\" with evergreen documentation using embedded E2E tests",
	"Architected platform-agnostic business logic (XState) with framework-specific thin clients",
	"Closed every UI-related issue in Amplify JS repository through zero-config component strategy",
	"Led Next.js SSR compatibility development, making Amplify JS thread-safe without breaking changes"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "Starbucks",
	"position": "Lead Platform Engineer",
	"startDate": "2018-03-01",
	"endDate": "2019-09-01",
	"summary": "Built and led 6-engineer team architecting unified GraphQL API for mobile and web platforms",
	"highlights": [
	"Built and led 6-engineer team architecting unified GraphQL API for Android, iOS, and Web PWA",
	"Reduced mobile payloads from 300kb to 15kb with significant 3G performance improvements",
	"Transformed deployment pipeline from manual hours-long process to 1-minute deployments with instant rollback",
	"Created living documentation through Storybook prototypes, eliminating traditional documentation maintenance"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "HigherEducation.com",
	"position": "CTO",
	"startDate": "2010-02-01",
	"endDate": "2018-01-01",
	"summary": "Scaled company from 15 to 150 employees while growing development team to 12 engineers",
	"highlights": [
	"Scaled company from 15 to 150 employees while growing development team to 12 engineers",
	"Increased core business KPI by 40% (2.8 to 3.9) through architectural and performance optimizations",
	"Architected monetization platform serving millions of monthly placements via single-script embed",
	"Achieved breakthrough performance improvements: TTFB 250ms→40ms, query optimization 800ms→150ms",
	"Implemented Docker-based continuous deployment (2015), enabling 1-minute infrastructure recovery",
	"Reduced partner onboarding from 2 weeks to days through normalized API and contract-driven development"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "WhiteFence",
	"position": "Web Application Architect",
	"startDate": "2007-04-01",
	"endDate": "2009-11-01",
	"summary": "Relaunched utility comparison platform with significant UX and performance improvements",
	"highlights": [
	"Relaunched utility comparison platform reducing user onboarding from 60+ seconds to seconds",
	"Increased monthly revenue by $12k (9%) through GeoIP personalization and UX optimization",
	"Built custom DNS-based split-testing platform eliminating third-party performance impacts",
	"Implemented progressive loading architecture with XHR background data fetching"
	]
	}
	],
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	"area": "Computer Science",
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	"endDate": "2006-01-01"
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	"name": "Languages & Frameworks",
	"keywords": [
	"JavaScript",
	"TypeScript",
	"React",
	"Node.js",
	"Python",
	"GraphQL",
	"Next.js",
	"PHP"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "Cloud & Infrastructure",
	"keywords": [
	"AWS",
	"Docker",
	"Kubernetes",
	"CI/CD",
	"Microservices",
	"Serverless",
	"Monitoring"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "Leadership & Process",
	"keywords": [
	"Team Scaling",
	"API Design",
	"DevOps",
	"Performance Optimization",
	"Open Source"
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	}
	],
	"projects": [
	{
	"name": "Alchemy",
	"url": "https://alchemy.run",
	"description": "Contributed Vercel, Neon, & Cloudflare Resources",
	"highlights": [
	"#4 Contributor"
	]
	},
	{
	"name": "<ClickToComponent />",
	"url": "https://github.com/ericclemmons/click-to-component",
	"description": "Option+Click React components in your browser to instantly open the source in your IDE"
	},
	{
	"name": "Amplify Visor",
	"description": "🏆 1st-place in AWS Amplify Hackathon",
	"url": "https://github.com/ericclemmons/amplify-visor"
	},
	{
	"name": "node-recorder",
	"description": "Simple recording & replaying of HTTP requests for predictable development & testing",
	"url": "https://github.com/ericclemmons/node-recorder"
	}
	],
	"references": [
	{
	"name": "Will Stern",
	"reference": "Eric is a fantastic leader. During my six years on his team, he guided a high-growth startup through a period of remarkable success. I look back on it as the most enjoyable and one of the more transformative experiences of my career. Eric is excellent at building lean teams with an outsized impact. I especially appreciated his focus on continually identifying innovative \"technical levers\" that can be used to multiply developer effort. Eric also cultivates a strong, empowering culture where every team member feels ownership and autonomy."
	},
	{
	"name": "Erich Rahm",
	"reference": "I was pretty newly a senior engineer but I liked the ownership you gave us in the products we were building. I felt empowered to make decisions and build things that I thought would benefit the products. I realize that some of this had to do with us not really having a PM but I liked it. It felt to me like you did a good job of filtering out most of the bullshit so that we could just focus on designing and building software. My struggle ever since has been to find another job where I actually felt ownership in the product. I'm 100% uninterested in being a code monkey and it's really hard for me to care about something if I'm not making design decisions the way I was at HE."
	},
	{
	"name": "Saul Maddox",
	"reference": "Eric Clemmons is one of the best leaders I have ever had the opportunity to work with. His mentorship not only reshaped my approach to software development and company management but also taught me the value of thoughtful, people-centric leadership. His guidance has truly transformed my professional journey, and I continue to apply the lessons he imparted on me every day."
	},
	{
	"name": "Evan Kaufman",
	"reference": "Eric was everything positive one looks for in an engineering manager: He always listened to the concerns of his direct reports, acting on them whenever possible; He shielded those under him from outside interference so that we could focus on our work instead of death by a thousand meetings; He was proactive in facilitating cross team collaboration and acted in the best interests of the business as a whole."
	}
	]
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