# Eric Cecchi

> Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Arcadia | Full-stack Generalist | UI + UX + API | Aspiring pizzaiolo

Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericcecchi

I’ve been making beautiful and functional user experiences on the World Wide Web for over a decade. Currently, I'm helping build the 100% renewable future at Arcadia, the tech company empowering energy innovators and consumers to solve power’s biggest problems and fight the climate crisis.

Prior to that, I worked at Sprout Social, where I founded and grew the team web developers tasked with elevating the brand and growing the customer base through digital marketing. On the Product team, I managed a team of software engineers building Sprout’s flagship social media management product used by over 20,000 customers. Beyond building new features, I’m a fierce advocate for improving our app’s UI and UX, accessibility, and performance.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Arcadia
Jan 2023 – Present | Greater Chicago Area
- Leading the technical strategy for Community Solar engineering, focusing on workflow optimization, automation, and creating a modernized management system
- Spearheading the evolution of the billing service, transitioning legacy systems to a modular, scalable architecture with domain-driven design and event-based systems
- Mentoring engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and department-wide presentations, sharing domain expertise to foster growth
- Proactively identifying technical challenges, driving cross-functional discussions on product direction, architecture, and best practices

### Staff Software Engineer @ Arcadia
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Greater Chicago Area
- Led multiple data migration projects from legacy to modern systems, coordinating across squads and ensuring timely delivery
- Enhanced billing system reliability and scalability by driving infrastructure upgrades and adopting API best practices
- Conducted in-depth technical research, influenced vendor selection, and collaborated with billing operations to increase efficiency through automation
- Facilitated cross-team collaboration by writing technical documentation and RFCs, contributing to alignment across engineering teams

### Senior Engineering Manager @ Arcadia
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Chicago Area
- Managed the launch of key billing features, including user credit expiration, SMB enrollment, and support for new payment methods like American Express and CashApp
- Championed new engineering standards, resulting in improved error reporting and enhanced system stability
- Supported engineers in career growth, leading initiatives that facilitated promotions and personal development

### Engineering Manager @ Arcadia
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area
Managing people, writing code, saving the planet, etc.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area
- Provided senior leadership for and developed a complete redesign of our social media engagement product, which was code-complete and released to 100% of our customers in under 6 months and received >85% positive customer feedback
- Facilitated and engineered a rebuild of our core Smart Inbox feature, migrating from a legacy Backbone.js to a modern React/Redux-based architecture
- Contributed to designing, planning, facilitating, and engineering the UIs and APIs for new features for our flagship engagement product, using technologies such as JavaScript (React/Redux), Python (Django), Node.js, and PHP (Laravel, CodeIgnitor)
- Identified bottlenecks for new product integrations and led technical initiatives to improve code maintainability and ship features faster
- Crafted and delivered presentations to share insights and best practices with engineers throughout the organization
- Facilitated a Design Sprint and led product research and development to enhance the security and compliance of internal tools used by hundreds of employees

### Engineering Manager @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area
- Promoted equitable hiring practices by developing resources and processes such as impact job descriptions, candidate assessments and evaluation rubrics, and anonymous and/or bias-mitigated interview questions and evaluation rubrics
- Partnered with my direct reports to identify growth areas and opportunities, advocating for and guiding them through their career development to achieve numerous raises, promotions, recognitions, and awards

### Senior Web Engineer @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chicago Area
- Increased developer efficiency and design integrity by building the first design system and UI component library used at the company, planting and then growing the seeds for the systems now used by the entire web engineering team
- Architected a reliable, scalable, and highly performant content delivery system utilizing AWS services such as Cloudfront, S3, and Lambda and built with the Terraform infrastructure-as-code solution
- Improved code quality and the developer experience by adopting modern web tooling and best practices, replacing a plethora of home-grown legacy solutions with native web standards or community-supported libraries
- Empowered marketers and designers to make changes to web pages by engineering a custom CMS solution optimized for web performance, accessibility, and design integrity
- Improved the developer experience by establishing intuitive, stable build systems, local development environments, and continuous integration and deployment systems

### Marketing Developer @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area
Pioneered and cultivated the discipline of marketing development, growing it to be one of the most respected and awarded teams within the organization

### Tech coordinator @ Keller Williams Success Realty
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Barrington, IL
I provided technical support, technology courses, and one-on-one training for real estate agents.

### Web Developer and UI/UX Designer @ Freelance
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Greater Chicago Area
I worked with several local businesses and nonprofits to build (or rebuild) their websites and other digital and print materials.
- Developed a content strategy and site architecture
- Designed wireframes and website UX
- Created and edited logos, photos, and iconography
- Created robust design systems to define color palettes, typography, UI components, and layout
- Developed responsive websites optimized for performance, accessibility, and user experience
- Created templates and assets for digital and print marketing


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics and Chemistry
Michigan State University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching
Trinity International University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### MicroMasters in Sustainable Energy
The University of Queensland
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ericcecchi
- Website: https://ericcecchi.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22