# Erik Hansen

> Staff Software Engineer at TrueAccord

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erikhansen

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ TrueAccord
Jan 2022 – Present
Maintain and build the Kafka infrastructure and tooling set for the company
Develop various stream processors using Kafka Streams, Confluent Client,  and Benthos
Confluent Kafka, Typescript, GoLang, Helm, K8s, AWS CDK, Terraform, Java, Scala

### Senior Software Engineer @ TrueAccord
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Wrote and launched a debt to loan conversion backend application
Worked on a tight timeline with a frontend developer to deliver a proof of concept
Typescript, AWS, CDK, GraphQL, Postgres, ECS, SQS, Github Actions

### Lead Backend Engineer @ SoLo Funds
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Rewrote inherited JS prototype into GoLang backend with live service migration
Lead a team of backend engineers and development to Series A funding close for the company
GoLang, Postgres, ActiveMQ, OpenAPI Code Generator, AWS, Terraform

### Backend Software Engineer @ SoLo Funds
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Cincinnati
Launched a p2p loan system in Typescript as the first backend engineer at the company
Application managed loans, payments, and communications for the entire loan lifecycle
Scaled application to 200k users in a fast paced user first agile environment

### Java Developer @ Fifth Third Bank
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Wrote database migrations with Spring Java. Integrating with POJO
services and DB2 database.

### Cloud Engineer @ Fifth Third Bank
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Wrote infrastructure as code for AWS proof of concept to create auto scaling
stacks for automated application deployment. Architected and created
a prototype application CI/CD pipeline using Git, Docker, Jenkins, and
Linux. Built a proof of concept infrastructure as code CI/CD pipeline for
image build and deployment using Packer and Terraform.

### Full Stack Developer @ Fifth Third Bank
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
June 2016-December 2016
 Cincinnati, Ohio
Wrote Python scripts for advanced log parsing and analysis. Wrote Java
Wicket framework code for 6 months to enhance an existing web applica-
tion. Simultaneously wrote React JS front end code for a separate project.
Made significant production code contributions on concurrent projects
with two programming languages that I hadn’t used previously.

### C++ Software Engineer Internship @ Diebold
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
∙ Active role in supporting PIN pad ATM module; identifying bugs, reproducing issues reported by customers,
communicating with team members, and emailing results to team members and customers.
∙ C/C++ development that saw use by business facing customers and internal use on my development team.
∙ Created a replication of a third party encrypted PIN pad to verify that encryption standards and banking specifications
were being followed.
∙ Extensive use of OpenSSL encryption libraries to reproduce DES encryption, RSA encryption, hashing, signing, and
other ATM cryptographic standards.
∙ Emphasis on the development of high efficiency code due to the significant amount of time certain encryption
algorithms take to execute.
∙ Reading for detailed understanding and writing of various automated banking specification documents.
∙ Participated in a full software development life cycle: planning, iterations, story points, development, testing, and code
reviews.
∙ Time estimations using Team Foundation Server story points and iterations with an importance placed on the accuracy
of estimates for project planning.
∙ Daily use of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server to check in my code and review team member’s code.
∙ Participated in weekly team meetings, was able to contribute to development on the Pin Pad.

### C# Software Developer Internship @ London Computer Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
∙ Assigned development projects in sprint meetings using the scrum development process.
∙ Sprint team development using C# WPF and Perforce versioning control system.
∙ Responsible for writing unit tests for all code that would be merged into the release branch.
∙ Active role in the code review cycle, reviewed peers work and fixed issues.
∙ Trained and helped new members of the QA team on all aspects of work requirements.
∙ Documented code changes made so that they could be properly tested by the QA team.

### QA Tester Internship @ London Computer Systems
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
∙ Responsible for communication of program requirements to audit team for testing of a large accounting software suite.
∙ Wrote automated testing programs using C# automation libraries and high level AU3 scripting language.
∙ Checked developer’s database queries by referencing tables in the database for accuracy.
∙ Wrote detailed descriptions of code bugs and the process to recreate them along with other technical documentation.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Cincinnati
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erik-hansen-6088809b
- GitHub: https://github.com/ehansen31

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Last updated: 2026-03-22