# Erik Weathers

> Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer | Go • Streaming Systems • Data Infrastructure | 10+ yrs building large-scale systems (Segment/Twilio, Groupon)

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erikweathers

I’m a backend and distributed systems engineer with deep experience in large-scale data pipelines, streaming systems, and cloud infrastructure. I focus on building reliable, high-throughput services, leading architectural work, and improving operational efficiency.

I’ve spent the last several years owning ingestion pipelines, distributed compute systems, and deployment architectures across high-scale environments, with a strong foundation in Go, Kafka, AWS, and cloud-native patterns.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2023 – Present | Oakland, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Oakland, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Apache Storm PMC/Committer @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2018 – Present | Oakland, CA
I am a committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member of the Apache Storm project.  I focus on Storm's integration with Mesos.

### Member @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2018 – Present | Oakland, CA

### Staff Engineer @ Groupon
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
Backend Infrastructure Engineering.

* built tools for Groupon's datacenters, production applications, etc. helping Groupon save $$ by transitioning from a hosted VM provider to our own datacenters. 
* contributed to Groupon's email generation and delivery infrastructure, allowing Groupon to save $$ by transitioning from an email sending service to sending our own emails.
* contributed to Groupon's MessageBus service which is based on HornetQ
* contribute to Kafka-as-a-Service
* lead Storm-as-a-Service project, built on top of Mesos

### Software Engineer @ Dasient
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Sunnyvale, CA
Second employee hired.  Frontend (website & APIs) & backend development in PHP.  New products including: ad scanning, web badge, etc.  Worked with partner companies to design & deliver products.  Architected migration from MySQL to MongoDB.

### Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Palo Alto, CA
VMware Converter Developer.  Helped develop Linux P2V (physical machine to virtual machine) conversion.  Worked on Windows P2V as well.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2000 – Jan 2007 | San Jose, CA
Security Appliance Developer (PIX and ASA)

### Intern @ Space Systems Loral
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000
Created scripting application to execute commands for geosynchronous satellite repositioning.  Worked in satellite control center.

### Intern @ NASA Ames Research Center
Jan 1997 – Jan 1998
Crawled around wind tunnels drawing to-scale maps of the electrical & fluid conduits.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
Stanford University

### BS in Computer Science
University of California, Davis

### West Valley College


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12