# Erik Ogan

> Staff Software Engineer at Academia

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erikogan

I am a seasoned software engineering leader who is looking for an opportunity where I can fuse technical and team leadership in in an organization transitioning from building their first solutions to establishing new foundations that supercharge operations.

Specialties: Java, Scala, Spark, Python, Ruby, Rails, Hadoop, Cascading, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Sidekiq, Resque, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Chef, Terraform, Javascript, Node.js, jQuery, React, GraphQL, C, C++, Perl/XS, Eclipse, Git, Apache HTTPD, nginx, Phusion Passenger, TCP/IP, HTTP, LDAP, SELinux policy development

Awards:
SXSW Music Hackathon Championship 2014 - Finalist: CrowdScaler
Hackdance @ Sundance Hackathon 2014 - Finalist: Lead and Pledge
White House “We the People” Open Data Day Hackathon 2013 participant

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Data Engineering Manager @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
[Amazon acquired One Medical in February 2023]

### Data Engineering Manager / Staff Data Engineer @ One Medical
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
Brought process, systems, and standardization to the data engineering team. This transformed their reactionary, improvisational mindset to better align with best-practices in the highly regulated healthcare industry.

• Empowered analysts and business leaders to make informed and complex decisions with confidence by building data pipelines with Airflow, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Apache Pig, Amazon EMR, Kubernetes, and Snowflake.

• Championed code-quality and accuracy while increasing team velocity. Introduced a unit-testing framework for Spark jobs and established standard, automatic code-linting across multiple repositories.

• Hired and guided engineers to high performance across multiple levels. Mentored and coached colleagues on technical, process, and career goals and objectives.

### Principal Engineer / Team Lead / Sr. Software Engineer @ Change.org
Jan 2011 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA
Built and architected full-stack, Ruby-on-Rails applications; infrastructure-as-code;
and data solutions to create the world’s largest social empowerment platform.

•Designed, developed, and managed a completely new revenue model, growing it to multiple million dollars annually. The company ultimately pivoted to make this product the primary source of income.

• Developed a geographic recommendation engine for millions of daily active users with a projected 5-figure monthly revenue potential. Extracted data signals from user event streams using Apache Spark in Scala. Collaborated with the data science team to deploy and evaluate multiple machine-learning models, and with product managers to prioritize business needs. Automated pipeline monitoring for early fault detection.

### Founding Principal @ Stealthy Monkeys Consulting
Jan 2002 – Jan 2014
Numerous short- to mid-term projects in enterprise web development and software engineering for many clients including the Netscape product division of AOL/Time Warner, CloudShield Technologies, and several other small- to mid-sized businesses and non-profit organizations.

### App Genius @ Context Optional
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, CA
Ruby-on-Rails architect and developer for high-volume, high-availability, viral Facebook Platform applications, including Chase Community Giving, the #1 highest volume, non-game application in 2011.

### Senior Developer @ Emmet Labs
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco, CA
First technical hire. Built and maintained a Ruby-on-Rails social media platform to plot the stories that bring us all together.

### Sr. Application Software Engineer @ CloudShield Technologies, Inc
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | Sunnyvale, CA
Rapidly prototyped and built complete customer solutions. Mentored junior developers in Agile methodology, object-oriented architecture, and database design. Dramatically increased government sales in new markets by leading the Common Criteria EAL 4+ security hardening of the CS-2000 product line.

### Senior Web Engineer @ Topica, Inc
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed the Topica Email Publisher web application, including tools for its support, maintenance, and testing. Mentored junior developers in software engineering, object-oriented and database design.

### Lead System Software Engineer / System Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Webmaster / System Programmer @ GALT Technologies, Inc.
Jan 1994 – Jan 1997 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States


## Education
### Project Management for Software Engineers
University of California at Berkeley Extension

### Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01