Eric McMillen

Eric McMillen

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Engineering Leader | Last-Mile Delivery and Logistics
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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  • Roadie
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Roadie
    Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)
    Working with an amazing team, which specializes in warehousing, webhooks, geo-tracking data, F500 integrations, and enterprise API experience.
  • Bellhop
    Director of Engineering
    Bellhop
    Jul 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year)
    - Reduced total cloud-infrastructure spend by 70%, data infrastructure spend by 90%, increased developer velocity by 50%, despite increasing traffic.
    - Manager and key contributor on the backend team. Key deliverables: API integration for F500 companies, rebuilt sales-quoting API, move-estimation API (30% improvement in accuracy), and billing/payments engine.
    - Coached engineers in full-stack engineering (React & React-Admin) to rebuild internal tools to save $500k+ per year.
  • Bellhop
    Engineering Manager - Backend Team
    Bellhop
    Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 (7 months)
    - Built out production data platform (utilizing Prefect, an Airflow variant) to the power Bellhop's core moving business -- contract management, supply forecasting, worker optimization, customer communications, etc.
    - Career development and performance management for team, built recruiting pipelines for high potential platform & data engineers, started platform internship program, organized on-site and virtual team-building activities.
  • Bellhop
    Principal Software Engineer
    Bellhop
    Jun 2021 - Jan 2022 (8 months)
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    Founder and Lead Engineer
    DotTrot
    Nov 2017 - Jun 2021 (3 years 8 months)
    Founder and lead engineer. Complete full stack engineering: backend (Golang), frontend (React) and mobile development (React Native). Company was focused on wedding and event-planning, prior to covid.
  • Uber
    Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning (Tech Lead)
    Uber
    Jan 2017 - Nov 2017 (11 months)
    Promoted to Tech Lead for Uber's Platform forecasting team (a hybrid software / ML team), which specialized in production-ready forecasting and ML-based approaches (XGBoost, Robust Regression, and LSTM’s).
  • Uber
    Data Scientist - Rider Demand Forecasting
    Uber
    Jul 2016 - Jan 2017 (7 months)
  • TokBox now Vonage
    Software Engineer - Data Platform
    TokBox now Vonage
    Jun 2013 - Jun 2016 (3 years 1 month)
    - Built data REST API's to provide data self-service to engineers, customer support, product managers and executives. Built product end-to-end: data storage (Hive, S3, RedShift, PostGres), ETL coordination (Python), and visualization layer (React, D3.js).
    - Wrote system monitoring algorithms (outlier/forecasting and changepoint detection) to improve system stability, catching several service degradations.
    - Refactored entire batch data pipeline using Spark to reduce processing completion time from 24hrs to approximately 1 hour. Used for key business processes, like billing & financial transactions.
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  • North Carolina State University
    B.S, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics
    North Carolina State University
  • North Carolina State University
    Master of Science (M.Sc, Analytics
    North Carolina State University
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