# Erik Ekberg > Human-centered software engineer @ HealthSherpa Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/erikekberg Software engineer with 7+ years of experience in full-stack product development, product analytics, and community building to create high performance customer-first teams leveraging modern agile practices. Practices which encourage continuous discovery, continuous delivery, and continuous self-improvement to reduce waste, stay aligned, and make feedback cheap. These practices include * Discovery Trees * Opportunity Solution Trees * Team/Paired Programming, * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Secure Secrets as Code * Test Driven Development (TDD) and more to drive alignment, productivity, and cross-functional collaboration in traditionally Ruby on Rails, Node, JavaScript, React, or Vue environments. With my cross-disciplinary background in software engineering, product analytics, psychology, sociology, mathematics, data, statistics, and UX I have unique insights into company culture, organizational design, and the value of strong working relationships to deliver simple, extensible, and scalable working software. In my next opportunity I am looking for a company that wants my experience in high quality code, modern agile practices, and servant-based leadership to build a community of crafters who will achieve, adapt, and grow with the company milestone after milestone. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer II (Remote) @ HealthSherpa Jan 2023 – Present | Sacramento, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Remote) @ Good Dog Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | United States • Built full-stack systems, services, experiences, and platforms, like the Preferred Breeder Program, working cross-functionally with designers, product owners, and data scientists to understand how customers used our products and to run A/B/n experiments to drive conversions. • Introduced modern agile practices like Discovery Trees, pair programming, and serverless architecture patterns to clarify business requirements, understand customer outcomes, and deepen team alignment to deliver simple, scalable, and extensible working software. • Mentored junior engineers in Test Driven Development (TDD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and software design patterns like service objects in Ruby on Rails, modules in Terraform, reusable components in React, and pure functions in Node and JavaScript through workshops and pair programming sessions to foster skill development and increase productivity. • Authored Decision Records (DRs) with solicited feedback from leaders to standardize our product analytics and adopt tools to afford business insights from anywhere, codify our on-call process to reduce customer support lead times, and document key post-failure retrospective insights to drive continuous improvement. ### Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Remote) @ ClickFlow Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States • Mentored direct reports in software design patterns to strangle our legacy Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, and Node distributed monolith into an event-sourced serverless architecture using Terraform, Kafka, Docker, MongoDB, and AWS Lambda to better reflect our event-driven domains and fix long-term cost and scalability requirements. • Decreased lead times for bugs, customer support tasks, and feature ideas by centralizing our triage, scope, and prioritization processes into a single product backlog to shift our mindset from the amount of work in progress to the amount of work done each week. • Interviewed and hired a product designer to shape our product roadmap based on conversations with customers and establish a design system we then programmed into reusable Vue components using Tailwind to reduce lead times. ### Software Engineer, Full-Stack @ Snap! Raise Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area • Standardize our design system nomenclature and programmed our design system into reusable mobile-first Vue components to streamline handoffs and centralize accessibility concerns. • Interviewed and mentored engineers in software design patterns, code hygiene, and modern agile practices to deliver business value while minimizing technical debt. • Visualized technical complexity for stakeholders by information mapping legacy Ruby on Rails code to drive alignment and inform scope when iterating on the new donor user journey. ### Software Engineer, Full-Stack @ Re-elect Allan Ekberg Campaign Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area • Developed and supported a political campaign website using Stripe, Vue, and Nuxt to collect online donations and make government financial reporting simple. ### Software Engineer, Frontend @ REI Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area • Programmed wireframes into accessible, reusable, and mobile-first Vue components to meet SEO, performance, and UX requirements across our micro frontend software architecture. • Translated product analytic requirements and reconciled trade-offs between the analytics, research, and engineering teams while implementing our new server-side search algorithms. ### Software Engineer, Frontend (Remote) @ Cartalyst Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ellensburg, WA • Evaluated the usability of features and refined responsive, mobile-first UI elements. ### UX Consultant @ Central Washington University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ellensburg, WA • Authored actionable UX reports on the new HSRC online application flow; critiquing user flows, user needs, and UI elements to improve the end-user experience. • Advised alternative information taxonomies on the Career Services website to enhance the discoverability of their services by students through a series of heuristic evaluations. ### Statistical Consultant @ Central Washington University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ellensburg, Washington • Reviewed research proposals for strengths and weaknesses in order to improve client methodology by ensuring key variables are appropriately constructed and measured. • Analyzed qualitative and quantitative research results from univariate and multivariate data sets using R, JASP, SPSS, and SAS to visualize information and see past the numbers. • Briefed clients on research findings by providing an executive summary with key findings and implications alongside our technical analyses to promote client comprehension. • Managed appointment workflows and schedules using Microsoft Office 365 and other third-party applications to create efficient consultations and quick feedback to clients. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Central Washington University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Ellensburg, Washington • Modified verbiage, language, and improved clarity of course assignments and rubrics to increase usability and student outcomes in the classroom. • Supervised 2 teaching assistants in the development of class actives, quizzes, and demonstrations to communicate abstract course concepts in concrete ways. • Consulted with students and supervisors to clarify feedback, create study guides, and review materials to facilitate usability and student learning. • Streamlined student feedback using rubrics, muting assignments, comments, and other workflows afforded by Canvas. ### Software Engineer, Full-Stack & UX Reseracher @ Central Washington University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Ellensburg, WA • Built an in-house A/B/n framework using Ruby on Rails, jQuery, and AWS to measure the effects of novel affordances in online exams on student performance. • Tested paper and high-fidelity prototypes to get cost-effective feedback and validate UX research before writing any code. ### Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Remote) @ Ekberg Sporthorses Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area • Developed dynamic online product listing pages using Ruby on Rails, Vue, and jQuery optimized for SEO to sell horses and related services. • Simplified ops by importing server configurations into Terraform and then migrating from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to AWS Fargate to deploy and scale Docker containers more easily. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Washington State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Pullman, Washington • Co-authored papers by contributing initial manuscripts and interpreting results on personality traits and preferred work environments. ## Education ### Master's degree in Experimental Psychology Central Washington University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor's degree in Psychology Washington State University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics Washington State University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erik-allan-ekberg - Website: https://www.erikekberg.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/erikekberg JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/erikekberg/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23