Erik Andersen

World's Happiest Software Engineer

Dallas, Texas, United States

About

I’m a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience architecting and developing scalable web and mobile systems, with clients ranging from small startups to Fortune 100 companies. I'm currently building the new eCommerce platform for the world's largest restaurant company, focusing on Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, SQL, and other cloud-native solutions. Beyond development, I'm a co-organizer of the Dallas Software Developers Meetup and the Commit Your Code Conference, some of the largest developer events in the DFW area. I'm also a content creator and mentor focused on helping those early in their software development career. My opinions are my own

Experience

  • Yum! Brands (Full-time · 5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Lead Back-End Software Engineer
      Sep 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Designed, developed, and deployed the Loyalty service for YUM's eCommerce Platform, driving a 56% increase in registered customer orders and playing a pivotal role in achieving $20 billion in annual digital sales

    • Senior Back-End Software Engineer
      Sep 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Developed the Customer and Authentication services for YUM's eCommerce Platform, enabling seamless digital ordering for over 100 million customers across more than 45,000 restaurants worldwide.

  • Pariveda Solutions (Full-time · 6 yrs 2 mos)
    • Software Engineering Manager
      Mar 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Led the end-to-end delivery of a $3 million cloud migration effort, overseeing 3 teams across engineering, QA, and DevOps (total of 12 contributors). Delivered the initiative under budget and on-time, while achieving near-zero customer impact (99.99% uptime)

    • Associate Full-Stack Mobile Developer
      Mar 2016 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Designed and developed a leaderboard microservice capable of processing 100 rps while maintaining response times under 200 ms through the use of AWS Lambda Functions, API Gateway, and DynamoDB Trained a team of 10 developers on Swift and led them in the migration of an app from Xamarin to native iOS, saving thousands of dollars in annual licensing and tooling costs

    • Full-Stack Mobile Developer
      Aug 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Developed a mobile app and back-end rules engine for a national health services company, cutting call-center response times by 99% by automating doctor recommendations and cost estimates Created an internal iOS framework that provided templates for common app operations, reducing the time to create a new mobile app for our clients by up to 75%

  • Mobile Developer at mCubed Labs
    Oct 2012 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Introduced test-driven-development, that ultimately reduced our team's defect rate by 20%, as measured by the number of bugs caught by QA Built 9 separate mobile applications spanning 3 industries using Objective-C

  • Student Software Engineer at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    Apr 2012 - Oct 2012 · 7 mos