# Eric Gèlinas > Engineering Leader | Apple, Slack, Dropbox → Noded AI | Building Teams & Products with AI Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ericglinas Engineering leader at top-tier companies including Apple, Slack, and Dropbox. Proven track record of managing remote and multidisciplinary teams, driving elegant product solutions, and delivering scalable, user-centric experiences. Passionate about improving team productivity and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Key Skills: Remote Team Leadership, Strategic UX Process Development, Product Development, Cross-functional Collaboration, Frontend and Backend Integration, Team Management & Mentorship, Performance Management, AI-Assisted Development ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Noded Ai Jan 2023 – Present | Marin County, California, United States • Architected a web UI using OpenAI's APIs, ProseMirror, MongoDB Atlas, Apollo Client, React, Vite, Mantine, and Tailwind • Collaborative product development with the co-founders • Recruited, interviewed and hired another engineer who directly reports to me • Pioneered agentic coding process with significant productivity gains • Took the site from an empty editor in January 2023 to our launch in July 2024 ### Engineering Manager @ Slack Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 • Leadership in development and product for the Workflow Builder feature • Built and managed Slack Platform's first remote UX team consisting of five frontend engineers, one backend engineer, and a designer • Collaborated with multiple teams and design leadership to ship a redesigned Workflow Builder capable of working with Slack's next generation platform in three months unblocking the release of Slack's next generation platform ### Staff Frontend Engineer @ Slack Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Lead development of an admin/end-user UI in a two month effort to allow Slack to scale to take on hundreds of thousands more seats with new contracts. This effort also helped avoid outages during pandemic usage spikes • Gained support for an internal standard for APIs supporting UIs to optimize perceived loading and amount of data shown in complex user-facing data tables • Direct impact on product decisions informed by data, organizational priorities, relationships with UX design, and an understanding of architectural opportunities • Over a year of direct engineering leadership experience prioritizing work, facilitating organization changes, hiring, and managing performance ### Sr. Software Engineer (Maps) @ Apple Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Contributed in building the initial release of Apple's web map application: https://maps.apple.com/ • Directly responsible for public developer documentation and bi-weekly publishing of release notes for MapKit JS • Led development of the authorization interface for MapKit JS • Developed GeoJSON import support for MapKit JS • Led development and continue to maintain a dashboard application for MapKit JS users • Presented MapKit JS authorization for WWDC 2016 ### Sr. Web Developer @ Dropbox Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • Primary frontend developer on the "Campus Cup" campaign - one of the first projects at Dropbox to use React • Performed 2-6 engineering interviews a week and trained peers on interview procedures • Built a mechanism for serving SVGs which are internationalized at runtime and cached • Mentored new-hires, including introductory task delegation and weekly progress check-ins ### Design technologist @ Stamen Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 * Full stack JavaScript develpment of caliparks.org * UX design on client projects as well as caliparks.org * Data driven sketching and production development using PostGIS, D3, Leaflet, and qGIS * Direct client contact and management of deliverables * Spoke publicly and attended events on behalf of Stamen Design * Built applications for scale using JavaScript, NodeJS, and React.JS ### Sr. Front-End Engineer @ Flickr Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 * Implemented an engineering project managment process which was adopted by all project teams * Run daily meetings as well as monitor and advise the adjustment of velocity for multiple projects * Designed a process for concordance between Yahoo Where on Earth IDs and Foursquare Venue IDs. This is in use on all Flickr Mobile apps * Moved flickr.com/map to run on LeafletJS and created a system for displaying map layers based on time taken and geo coordinate of a photo * Developed the web geotagging interface * Key contributor in a complete redesign of the Flickr Photo page in 2010 * Front-End code changes on Flickr.com which includes Javascript, HTML, CSS, and PHP * Involved in architecture decisions for front-end technologies ### Web Interface Engineer @ Yahoo, Inc Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 * Created JavaScript based interface components distributed through a packaged framework * Enforce Web Standards from design to development * Created scaleable CSS and Markup for template. * Helped deploy a Scrum strategy within a project, including facilitation of communication across skill-set and organization * Mentored colleagues on Object Oriented JavaScript and Scrum * Extended the YUI framework within a project specific library and worked directly with the YUI core team to resolve issues. ### Web Interface Engineer @ EarthLink, Inc Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 * Led interface development of a Map-based search product. Leveraged Yahoo ui, Prototype JavaScript Framework, and Scriptaculous frameworks to enhance the search an mapping functionality of the Microsoft Virtual Earth API. * Applied knowledge of Agile development concepts to create a Web 2.0 portal that will replace the current EarthLink web portal. * Key developer of a social bookmarking site. This application was built using the Ruby on Rails framework. RJS and JSON were used to facilitate an AJAX enabled application of Model-view-controller. * Ongoing HTML, Javascript, and CSS enhancements to a web portal with a user base of over 4 million subscribers. Optimized images delivered in photoshop format from UI design group. Developed Apache Velocity templates that enable a content management tool. ### Production Coordinator @ EarthLink, Inc Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 * Ongoing HTML, Javascript, and CSS enhancements to the primary marketing site of a national ISP. * Primary web designer for a web site featuring EarthLink's Eco-Challenge team. * Led an initiative to create a workflow system to manage content update requests for EarthLink's portal products and improve staff efficiency. Acted as primary developer and server support for a PHP and MySQL-based application. ### Technical Support @ EarthLink, Inc Jan 1998 – Jan 2001 * Supervisor of 11 technical support representatives. Ensured customer satisfaction through direct customer communication and employee development. * Primary interface developer of a web application suite developed to facilitate communication between 4000 call center employees and corporate communications. This application was developed using ASP and Microsoft Exchange. ### Web Designer @ Career Explorers Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 * Designed and developed primary website of a direct mail catalog. ## Education ### In Progress in Theatre Arts, Computer Science Pasadena City College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ericgelinas - Website: http://stamen.com - Website: http://standardpixel.com - Website: http://blog.standardpixel.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ericglinas JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ericglinas/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05