# Eric Son

> Software Engineer at Robinhood

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericson

I value hard work, authenticity, and compassion. If these values resonate with you, please feel free to drop a line on any of my contacts!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Robinhood
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
Intern on the Clearings / Books & Records Team

### Software Developer Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Intern for the Alexa Timers team

### Research Intern - Calico User Group @ Tigera
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Part time researcher for Tigera

### IoT Software Developer Intern @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Interned for Samsung Research Canada’s IoT team developing microservices and structured streaming applications in relation to Samsung’s IoT devices

- Reduced the cache invalidation time of a microservice from 24 hours to 15 minutes
- Created from scratch a structured streaming service that delivers over 200,000 low battery notifications worldwide per day, using a
circular queue algorithm to achieve efficiency at scale
- Implemented an Apache Spark application which routes 800,000 events per minute to their own specific microservices

Tech Stack: Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop

### Junior Cloud Operations Engineer Intern @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Worked as a Dev Ops Engineer for Samsung's cloud operations and infrastructure.

- Wrote an internal that helped identify stale/underutilized EBS volumes to save over $13 000 annually.
- Completed a POC using AWS S3 buckets as the backend for Samsung Pay’s yum repository to remove a single point of failure, making the system highly available while increasing data redundancy
- Presented this POC and its implementation details to Samsung Pay’s global operation’s leaders to push towards global implementation

Tech Stack: Python, Linux, AWS, Shell, Ansible, Jenkins


## Education
### Bachelor of Commerce - BCom in Computer Science
The University of British Columbia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eric-sonn
- Portfolio: https://www.ericsonn.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29