# Eric Robinson

> Staff Software Engineer at Instacart

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Gametime United
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
• Serve as the most senior individual contributor on Gametime’s 15+ person engineering team, providing technical leadership and mentorship
• Lead a variety of backend engineering projects, including architecting solutions, supervising team members, and interfacing with business stakeholders
• Led and designed a rewrite of Gametime’s proprietary pricing and curation service, resulting in 2.5x increase in customer-facing app speed
• Rewrote Gametime’s purchasing and fulfillment system (responsible for accepting customer transactions and delivering customers’ tickets), including integrations with payment services, and managed its rollout
• Automated the business process of delisting sold tickets, reducing internal manual work and improving the customer experience
• Wrote and ran load tests on our core services in preparation for peak season, finding and fixing several issues uncovered in that process, resulting in zero load-related downtime incidents during the season

### Senior Software Engineer @ Gametime United
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Software Engineer @ Minted
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
• Led engineering for the Minted launch of custom postage stamps (solution architecture, code reviews, project management, design reviews with senior leadership), which drove multiple points of company growth
• Built components in React to support site transition from Backbone.js
• Served as scrum master for the e-commerce team, implementing best practices for sprint planning
• Contributed to projects across the Minted e-commerce experience, including homepage, photo upload,
custom envelope addressing, and the post-purchase experience
• Significantly reduced site latency through database optimizations and front-end improvements
• Awarded the Rainmaker Award for exceptional contribution to Minted’s business

### Actuarial Analyst @ The Segal Company
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
• Updated valuation programming to account for plan and assumption changes; thoroughly tested valuation programming each year and after any change
• Calculated liabilities and smoothed asset values for plans worth more than $1 billion
• Coordinated with clients to obtain participant data for over fifty retiree- health plans and six multiemployer defined benefit pension plans


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Mathematics and Economics
University of California, Davis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eric-robinson-318b8229

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Last updated: 2026-03-29