Open-source author and technical leader specializing in full-stack applications with ergonomic APIs. 17+ years of experience scaling engineering teams and delivering high-impact solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Expert in navigating ambiguity for remote & hybrid teams by working backwards from user experience, with a proven track record of reducing costs while improving performance and developer productivity.
Leading production-readiness of vision-based AI testing platform for enterprise customers as Employee #3
Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% ($8k to $4k monthly) while improving performance through architectural optimization
Leading production-readiness of vision-based AI testing platform for enterprise customers
Building engineering team and implementing scalable development methodologies as Employee #3
Architecting self-hosting, type-safe solutions with deterministic testing and competitive performance
Led innovation team implementing event-driven architecture and automation solutions
Delivered $80k-$120k monthly savings through care coordination automation, eliminating need for 3 support staff
Led innovation team implementing event-driven "strangler fig" pattern for manual process automation
Reduced PR deployment time by 6x (23 minutes → 4 minutes) through optimization
Established Design System adoption metrics monitoring and self-service component authoring guidance
Created atomic, commit-based preview environments for improved development workflow
Domain Lead for Connect's embedded surfaces team during organizational scaling challenges
Domain Lead for Connect's embedded surfaces team during organizational scaling challenges
Architected iframe-based UI embedding strategy for secure payment integration on third-party sites
Built comprehensive testing platform with HAR-based mocking and cross-tool behavioral test adapters
Led technical strategy for Shadow DOM alternatives and style isolation in embedded environments
Technical lead for 10-person cross-platform UI team delivering cloud-connected components
Technical lead for 10-person cross-platform UI team delivering cloud-connected components
Pioneered "docs-driven development" with evergreen documentation using embedded E2E tests
Architected platform-agnostic business logic (XState) with framework-specific thin clients
Closed every UI-related issue in Amplify JS repository through zero-config component strategy
Led Next.js SSR compatibility development, making Amplify JS thread-safe without breaking changes
Built and led 6-engineer team architecting unified GraphQL API for mobile and web platforms
Built and led 6-engineer team architecting unified GraphQL API for Android, iOS, and Web PWA
Reduced mobile payloads from 300kb to 15kb with significant 3G performance improvements
Transformed deployment pipeline from manual hours-long process to 1-minute deployments with instant rollback
Created living documentation through Storybook prototypes, eliminating traditional documentation maintenance
Scaled company from 15 to 150 employees while growing development team to 12 engineers
Scaled company from 15 to 150 employees while growing development team to 12 engineers
Increased core business KPI by 40% (2.8 to 3.9) through architectural and performance optimizations
Architected monetization platform serving millions of monthly placements via single-script embed
Achieved breakthrough performance improvements: TTFB 250ms→40ms, query optimization 800ms→150ms
Implemented Docker-based continuous deployment (2015), enabling 1-minute infrastructure recovery
Reduced partner onboarding from 2 weeks to days through normalized API and contract-driven development
Relaunched utility comparison platform with significant UX and performance improvements
Relaunched utility comparison platform reducing user onboarding from 60+ seconds to seconds
Increased monthly revenue by $12k (9%) through GeoIP personalization and UX optimization
Built custom DNS-based split-testing platform eliminating third-party performance impacts
Implemented progressive loading architecture with XHR background data fetching
Bachelor of Science
TypeScript-native, zero-dependency Infrastructure-as-Code library designed for gen-AI workflows
#4 Contributor
Developer tooling for React component navigation
Debugging and development tools for AWS Amplify
Code transformation and migration platform
HTTP request recording and mocking library for testing
Eric is a fantastic leader. During my six years on his team, he guided a high-growth startup through a period of remarkable success. I look back on it as the most enjoyable and one of the more transformative experiences of my career. Eric is excellent at building lean teams with an outsized impact. I especially appreciated his focus on continually identifying innovative "technical levers" that can be used to multiply developer effort. Eric also cultivates a strong, empowering culture where every team member feels ownership and autonomy.
Will Stern
I was pretty newly a senior engineer but I liked the ownership you gave us in the products we were building. I felt empowered to make decisions and build things that I thought would benefit the products. I realize that some of this had to do with us not really having a PM but I liked it. It felt to me like you did a good job of filtering out most of the bullshit so that we could just focus on designing and building software. My struggle ever since has been to find another job where I actually felt ownership in the product. I'm 100% uninterested in being a code monkey and it's really hard for me to care about something if I'm not making design decisions the way I was at HE.
Erich Rahm
Eric Clemmons is one of the best leaders I have ever had the opportunity to work with. His mentorship not only reshaped my approach to software development and company management but also taught me the value of thoughtful, people-centric leadership. His guidance has truly transformed my professional journey, and I continue to apply the lessons he imparted on me every day. PS: This is a hard one because there is a lot. People focused, creative solutions, pushing boundaries, trying and being okay to fail, able to find the positive in all work done, the ability to laugh and enjoy the small details in life, a focus on family and mental health, pushing people to take care of themselves, open/honest and that brings trust from all sides, willing to spend extra time and talk through any and all problems, able to listen and get feedback about anything while being open to the feedback, a dreamer, ugh I miss working with you.
Saul Maddox
Eric was everything positive one looks for in an engineering manager: He always listened to the concerns of his direct reports, acting on them whenever possible; He shielded those under him from outside interference so that we could focus on our work instead of death by a thousand meetings; He was proactive in facilitating cross team collaboration and acted in the best interests of the business as a whole.
Evan Kaufman