PLAYER 01 · ENGINEERING LEADER
ERIC JEFFERS
I build distributed platforms, applied AI systems, and engineering teams. Follow the route from semiconductor fabs to global content infrastructure — with a few side quests along the way.
BEGIN CAREER ROUTE
8 STOPS · 15+ YEARS · ONE LONG QUEST
CAREER ROUTE
Current Quest
September 2024 – Present
Software Development Manager — Distributed Content & Asset Platform
Amazon
Leads large engineering teams across Tempe and Seattle operating a global platform serving hundreds of millions of requests for 100+ internal teams. Owns 50+ production services, expanded an applied-ML roadmap from 3 to 30+ features, and pioneered an AI-assisted development ecosystem. Founded a cross-org GenAI Working Group spanning 10+ teams and 100+ engineers.
Cloud Region
May 2020 – September 2024
Sr Software Engineer — Consumer Marketing Platform
Amazon
Built and scaled consumer marketing systems serving millions of daily visitors globally. Re-architected content delivery from a monolith into a serverless, multi-tenant AWS platform and built CMS capabilities for non-technical teams publishing across dozens of markets.
Island Passage
May 2019 – May 2020
Senior Software Development Engineer
Hawaiian Airlines
Led a SCRUM team across shopping, booking, ticketing, and trips. Architected a distributed JAMstack solution for web modernization, shipped the first modernized module end-to-end, and led Identity-as-a-Service vendor evaluation and architecture requirements.
Storm Watch
September 2018 – May 2019
Manager, Product Engineering
KUBRA
Led 5 engineers and a Scrum Master on a SaaS outage-mapping product used by 15+ major North American utilities and viewed millions of times per day during storms. Maintained a 99.9% uptime SLA with a sub-15-minute disaster-recovery target and delivered 4× faster file throughput.
Pipeline Canyon
January 2017 – September 2018
Senior Software Engineer
KUBRA
Principal architect rebuilding a legacy product into multi-tenant SaaS processing 300K+ batch files monthly. Designed a scalable distributed pipeline for outage and meter data and hosted two company-wide hackathons.
Library Camp
September 2015 – January 2017
Software Engineer
KUBRA
Built extensible Java and Spring web application libraries for a client-customizable SaaS platform, including data archival tooling, API security, and API testing.
Motor Plains
June 2014 – September 2015
Software Developer II
General Motors
Developed GM’s Shop-Click-Drive online retailing tool, led feature groups, rebuilt a complex incentives engine, and mentored two junior developers.
Silicon Foundry
July 2011 – May 2014
System Engineer I → II
Samsung Semiconductor
Full-stack developer for semiconductor manufacturing quality-control systems. Central to a US and South Korea cross-fab standardization program and recognized for streamlining collaboration across 2,000+ employees.
SIDE QUESTS
BUILD QUEST
KIROCREW CMS
A CMS side project focused on giving teams a faster, friendlier way to organize and publish structured content.
TEAM QUEST · iOS + ANDROID
KAI CREW
A Dragonboat and Outrigger team app for scheduling, roster and organization management, and crew chat.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
B.S., Engineering · Mechanical Engineering Technology, Aerospace Focus · GPA 3.56 · Dean’s List 3× · SMART Grant Recipient
PARTY & COMMUNITY
Founded and led Amazon’s corporate dragon-boat racing teams in Tempe for five years — recruiting paddlers across campus, competing regionally, and building a signature culture initiative featured in recruiting.