Eric Nation
Senior Software Engineer
Senior software engineer with 14+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating complex software systems in production. I specialize in high-leverage engineering work — owning critical platforms, scaling decision-making systems, and enabling teams to move faster without increasing risk.
ENTJ-A · Commander
core strengths
Agentic Engineering
Designing AI-augmented development workflows and autonomous agent systems. Leveraging LLMs, prompt engineering, and orchestration patterns to multiply engineering output and ship faster without sacrificing quality.
Experimentation & Data
Building experimentation platforms that power revenue-driven decisions. Feature flagging, A/B testing, statistical analysis, and the tooling that makes data-informed product development possible at scale.
Full-Stack Development
End-to-end product engineering across the stack. From React and Svelte frontends to Node.js services to database design. Choosing the right tool for the job and building systems that teams can actually maintain.
Technical Leadership
Mentoring engineers, providing architectural guidance, and partnering cross-functionally with product and design. Driving technical direction while keeping teams aligned and shipping.
experience
Carvana
Senior Software Engineer- Own and lead Carvana’s experimentation platform, enabling product and growth teams to run experiments that directly inform revenue-driven decisions at scale.
- Serve as the primary technical owner and subject-matter expert across experimentation systems, spanning APIs, frontend SDKs, and distributed services in a cloud-native, event-driven architecture.
- Drive platform evolution to enable fast, safe iteration, balancing velocity with data correctness, reliability, and operational discipline.
- Design and operate resilient systems with a focus on long-term maintainability, observability, and scalability in production environments.
- Mentor and onboard engineers, provide architectural guidance, and act as an escalation point for complex platform and production issues.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to translate ambiguous business needs into durable technical solutions with measurable impact.
- Contribute to an AI-first SDLC, helping define workflows and tooling that embed AI into development and operations to meaningfully improve team productivity and consistency.
Operation Nation
CEO- SEO / GEO / AEO
- Web / App Development
- AI Automation & Integration
- Consulting
Alley Interactive
Software Developer- Responsible for developing high-end headless Wordpress sites using Node, React, Redux, and PHP.
- Followed Agile Scrum practices and communicated projects with clients.
- Successfully launched multiple sites over the past year
InkSoft
Senior Front-End Developer- Responsible for designing and developing eCommerce websites.
- Built a new “design studio” application leveraging Angular and Canvas technologies.
- Successfully built a new eCommerce Checkout experience for our customers resulting in increased revenue and sales.
- Built a new sleek Dashboard page in Angular 1.x
- Spearheaded building the user-interface of a new eCommerce application “Store Front” in Angular 2.x allowing our customers to rapidly create their own customizable websites.
- Upgraded Angular 2 applications as newer versions released all the way up till version 7
- Built an internal Angular component library allowing our developers and designers to be more productive and save time.
Realworld Marketing
Web Director- Responsible for managing 17 client account websites.
- Responsibilities included designing and developing marketing landing pages, email templates, communicating on a daily basis with the Project Managers and Developers from their web vendors, and updating content.
- Successfully launched 9 new websites in 4 months increasing client retention.
Tristar
UI/UX Designer & Developer- Was the primary UI Developer during the complete redesign and rebuild of PrevueLogic, a CRM software used internally at Tristar.
- Build and maintained all new and existing pages on Tristar’s corporate website.
- Completed a redesign of their website, designed microsites, built out HTML promotions and newsletters.
Education Management Corporation (EDMC)
TECHNICAL SUPPORT ANALYST- Provided technical support for over 180,000 people including employees, faculty, and students.
- Technical Support including browser trouble-shooting, software support, and education about how to use the school's online platform.
education
ART INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH
A.S. OF SCIENCE IN INTERACTIVE WEB DESIGNwhat colleagues say
"Eric was always a pleasure to work with during our time together at TriStar. He has a great eye for detail and made sure our websites were coded and maintained at the highest level possible. Eric always took pride in being knowledgable in the latest web technologies and implementing them whenever necessary. I would highly recommend him for any position that involves web development."
"Eric is an extraordinary developer and colleague; his motivation to improve is driven by a rare desire of passion and desire to improve. In a market driven by innovation, Eric took initiative to always stay ahead of the curve of the latest development trends to the point of improving his skill in and engrossing himself in the latest trends any chance he got."
"Eric is a talented front end developer with a keen eye for design. Eric takes the time to understand the needs of a project at a high level before helping design and implement a clean solution. He has a wealth of experience in different front end technologies and is a pleasure to work with!"
Let's talk.
Have a project, idea, or collaboration in mind? I'd love to hear about it.