# Eric Magers

> Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericmagers

Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in DevOps, software design and architecture, testing, and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, and GCP), with a large interest in application security and secure application development

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | Greater Seattle Area

### Principal Software Engineer @ Alaska Airlines
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Alaska Airlines
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area
• Provided technical direction and guidance for multiple engineering teams in the E-Commerce
organization.
• Created and reviewed system designs and proposals.
• Worked with stakeholders, project managers, designers, and engineers to define project requirements
and translate those requirements into actionable stories and work.
• Collaborated with the security and SRE teams to define standards and build systems to support those
standards.
• Participated in Alaska's WeFly mentorship program as a mento

### Software Engineer @ Alaska Airlines
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
• Helped re-build the seat map experience in a modern React framework with modern .NET Core
backends.
• Defined a release process that allowed for the safe roll-out of the new website components such that
we could catch production issues early with minimal impact on guests.
• Investigated and identified fixes for networking issues that impacted the entire E-Commerce
organization.
• Worked with stakeholders to identify requirements for a set of APIs that would be used to help
modernize the Revenue Management System.
• Created system designs based on requirements and translated those designs into actionable stories
and work.
• Led the implementation efforts of the engineering team.

### Software Engineer @ ThriveHive
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
• Worked heavily in the AWS cloud with many services such as RDS, EMR, EC2, and CloudFormation.
• Worked as a full-stack engineer with a focus on designing and implementing backend APIs and data
processing applications.
• Helped transition legacy applications into modern frameworks and architectures using clean coding,
domain-driven design principles, and microservices.
• Mentored junior engineers and gave tech talks on good programming practices.

### Software Engineer @ CDK Global
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area
• Worked on a legacy .NET Framework monolithic application as a full-stack engineer.
• Modernized the team's area of the monolith by introducing microservices that broke functionality out of
the monolith.
• Performed regular application and SQL performance tests and took on work to optimize bottlenecks.
• Was involved in R&D projects exploring cloud technologies (AWS) where I was able to help design
and implement solutions.
• Won the company's global hackathon with my idea to create a novel "Customer Search" solution using
Elastic Search and microservices which proved to reduce the regular search time from ~8 seconds
to <150 milliseconds for our largest clients. Continued working on this project through its release to
production.

### Software Engineering Intern @ CDK Global
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Portland, Oregon Area
• Worked as a full-stack engineer on the Parts team.
• Focused on creating UIs and components with ExtJS, with PHP and Postgresql for the backend, that
could be re-used throughout the application.
• Worked closely with the technical writer to document the UIs and components for engineers and for
business users.

### Bookstore Associate @ Portland Community College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
Manage daily store duties such as opening and closing, as well as balancing tills and other general accounting work. Training employees on store processes and policies. Manage book inventory, online orders, and all shipping and receiving.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering
Oregon Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Associates of Science
Portland Community College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22