erik.schlegel.io

In South Bay Area born and raised
In the frontend is where I spend most of my days.
Chillin' out, codin', approachin' a goal,
And all sketchin' some JS in a console
When an intermittent bug that was all about hate
Started makin' trouble in my UI state.
It got in one endless loop, and had browser grind. It said,
"Something or the other, blah blah blah's undefined."

I waited with a .then() and when it resolved
The JSON looked all good; API's absolved.
If anything I could say the issue's just rare…
But I thought naw, let's squash it. Yo, on with repairs!

I put in a debugger; or maybe seven or eight
And spoke to the coder who designed this frustrator.
Looked at the call stack found a race condition
So I built in a fix. I'm a browser physician.

Solution Developer
Technical Leader
Product Partner

Employment

Sr. Principal Engineer

LendUp

2019 – 2021

I was a mentor, thought-leader, and sounding-board to peers and product owners alike. I partnered with technical and product leadership to help define and deliver fantastic customer experiences on the LendUp website and on a new iOS and Android banking app.

IT Lead,
Fullstack Developer

Cheviot Performance Marketing

2018 – 2019

As the sole IT member, my time at Cheviot was incredibly rewarding. I worked directly with the CEO to understand his vision, and then create various solutions to deliver business value. Solutions ranged from websites and web apps to integrations with third-party CRMs, eCommerce platforms, and Publishers.

Sr. Frontend Engineer

FTD

2014 – 2018

I worked on multiple initiatives, however there were two projects of which I am incredibly proud:

Delivered a ground-up performance-optimized rebuild of ProFlowers.com. Page performance topped previous record setters like Amazon, Gap, and BestBuy.
Architected and developed a drag-and-drop page-building webapp capable of delivering created pages to the customer with exceptionally fast loading times.

Manager,
Frontend Engineering, QA

Provide Commerce

2009 – 2014

Led the teams responsible for the Frontend/UI of five highly-successful brand websites. I intentionally stepped down from the role to support family during a season of failing health.

Frontend Developer

Provide Commerce

2008 – 2014

Proactively wrote a suite of applications which fully automated my initial ongoing deliverables.
Sole frontend developer on an order process rebuild. With conversion rates over 42.8%, ProFlowers.com became the net's highest converting site.

Developer

A-Life Medical

2004 – 2005

Built desktop app to configure A-Life’s NLP engine to read designated portions of scanned medical documents. Developed library to create DTD-compliant XML files used in the medical billing industry. Designed and built research website. Designed logos, iconography, and magazine ads for new software offerings.

IT Support

HMH Engineering

2004 – 2005

Built and maintained company internet and intranet sites. Sourced, built, and maintained desktop, laptop, backup, and server hardware. Maintained printers, large format plotters and scanners. Learned to program and built desktop and server applications to solve workflow issues for various departments throughout the company.