# Eric Danielson

> Principal Software Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericdanielson

I Promise I'm not looking for a job, and I'm Definitely not looking for a management job.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Zymergen
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Designed and deployed a workflow system for drug discovery, allowing computational biologists to rapidly develop and scale tools and methods. Developed data management and access strategy for large genomic libraries.

### Engineering Manager @ Twitter
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Lead team developing internal accounting system for resource utilization and interface for requesting and managing resources. Delivered projects which substantially reduced developer time and effort for common tasks, improved application security, and facilitated large improvements in resource usage efficiency. Hired three new engineers, improved team practices and cohesion, substantially improved time to delivery and team productivity.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
Built core framework, several services, and tools for managing bare-metal servers. The system managed 200k+ servers and supported simultaneous operations on 10k+ servers. As tech lead, established team roadmap and recruited and mentored several new members.

### Lead Document Build Engineer @ Embarcadero Technologies
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012
Built multi-language documentation system for Delphi programming language. Built multi-server pipeline taking compiler output to public wiki to shippable help files.

### API Engineer @ Cult, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Wrote backend for location-based chat and microblogging startup using Node & Python. Set up and managed backend servers.

### Back End Developer @ Quiddities Dev, Inc
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Primary backend PHP developer for web contracting firm.

### Lab Consultant @ UCSC
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008


## Education
### BA in Business Management Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielsoneg
- Portfolio: http://egd.im

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Last updated: 2026-04-12