Erik Johannessen Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

A Substack focused on writing about and building community around Athletics at the University of California, Berkeley. Completely independent from the University, we are reader-supported. From the team that brought you the California Golden Blogs. Go Bears!

New Hope, Pennsylvania, Us

Primarily responsible for delivering feature development, performance improvements, and stability for Livebox (https://www.themeetgroup.com/livebox/), a drop-in SDK to add Live-streaming and monetization to third-party social apps. Oversaw roughly half a dozen cross-functional development teams across the US and Eastern Europe, supported by Leads on each team.Accomplishments include:- Re-oriented Engineering processes and practices as TMG’s Live Video Broadcasting feature grew from an in-house product used within TMG-owned Dating apps and transitioned into Livebox, a SaaS business that offers a drop-in SDK and API services to third-party apps.- Codified Engineering goals and best practices into a cohesive TMG Engineering Philosophy, driving consistency over roughly a dozen cross-functional development teams across US and Europe. Emphasized scaling architecture to >10M DAU and designing software to be leveraged by many diverse partners.- Reduced integration time and increased update adoption for Livebox SDK by focusing teams on delivering a seamless Out-of-the-Box experience. Streamlined adoption by reducing integration points, eliminating breaking changes, and simplifying documentation with a standard template and consistent terminology.

New Hope, Pennsylvania, Us

Primarily responsible for delivering feature development, performance improvements, and stability for components and services shared amongst 5+ apps in App/Play Store. Oversaw multiple cross-functional development teams across the US and Eastern Europe, supported by Leads on each team. Hands-on backend developer as necessary.Accomplishments include:- Enhanced consistency, performance, reusability, and scale in our software architecture by introducing an organization-wide Architectural Review process, including a standardized template for all project documentation and design review by all relevant stakeholders.- Developed Onboarding program for Team Leads, both for experienced leads brought in from outside the company as well as current Sr. Engineers being elevated to a Lead role for the first time.- Developed Engineering Leveling rubric for Managers to guide Promotions and Performance Management.

New Hope, Pennsylvania, Us

Managing several backend development teams, either directly or indirectly. Heavily involved with Platform development. Get my hands dirty with process (agile), project management, architecture, code reviews.Accomplishments include:- Developed an Engineering Manifesto to serve as a touchstone for organizational goals and values, as an aid towards project and roadmap planning.- Improved collaboration across teams by simplifying and standardizing JIRA workflows across all development teams, improving both ease of use as well as the tool’s ability to accurately reflect reality.- Provided mentorship and oversight for other managers, only some of whom directly reported to me. Initiated and led weekly Leads Meeting to discuss process improvements, technical issues, and management challenges, and drove follow-through on generated action items.- Designed and implemented an A/B testing framework, integrated into the company’s Big Data pipeline, focused on ease of configuration and providing the most accurate reporting possible.- Organized and led company-wide Hackathons, as well as a tech-focused variant, Tech Debt Reduction Days.- Managed SF office space, including coordinating events, managing office inventory, and overall budget.

Washington, Dc, Us

Co-founded California Golden Blogs with 2 college friends, an independent blog covering college sports at my alma mater, UC Berkeley. Produced original content, helped recruit additional volunteer writers, and networked with other bloggers, growing the site to the point where we were picked up by SB Nation, the premier network for fan-based sports blogs in the US, as their Cal-focused site. Other duties have included site management, content compilation and editing, and community management.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed a Platform Team, a Payments Team, and a CRM/Tools Team, as well as indirectly managed Web and Search Teams. Hands-on software development as necessary.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Currently managing a Platform Team and a Search Team, as well as indirectly managing several other teams. Have previously managed a Web Team, a Payments Team, an iOS Team, and a full-stack, cross-platform feature team focused on Pets, a social game exclusively on Tagged that is a major revenue driver for the product (https://venturebeat.com/social/how-a-stock-market-for-people-is-funding-a-shot-at-the-next-billion-user-mobile-app/#). Also a skilled Sr. PHP developer.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Sr. Software Developer, both Back- (PHP) and Front-end (JavaScript). Team Lead on Social Games. Projects include prototyping new games for the Tagged website, building monetization features for existing games, and a scaled Group Chat feature built on top of Kafka.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software Developer, both Back- (PHP) and Front-end (JavaScript). Developed new site features and enhancements for existing ones on Tagged, a social network with millions of daily active users. Also built a custom mocking & unit testing framework to support our in-house PHP framework.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Worked as an independent contractor on occasional projects as necessary. Translated user requirements into software development plans, and then executed on those plans. Managed testing, versioning, and release of all software developed.Primarily developed plugins for Google SketchUp in Ruby, with complex UI added on with JavaScript and jQuery. Developed a remote licensing server in Java. Also compiled some Windows installers, which is a decidedly uninspiring task.

Developed software to aid in the production of Plumbing and HVAC design. Implemented fixture specification, sizing calculations, and 3D modeling of designs. To aid software development, also trained as a plumbing designer.

Us

QA Tester on PC and console games, primarily Championship Surfer with some work on Rock-'em Sock-'em Robots.

Brandon, Manitoba, Ca

QA Tester for PC and console games, primarily Chessmaster 7000 for the PC, Chessmaster II for the Playstation, Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War for the PC, with some misc. testing for other products.

QA Tester for PC games. Began as an intern, was hired full-time after completion of internship. Worked primarily on People's General.