Eric Normand Senior Software Engineering Consultant · Clojure and Functional

Software Engineer

Metabase

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)

Chief Consultant

LispCast

Feb 2013 - Current (13 years 9 months)

● Contract software development services.
● Advise small businesses and startups about digital transformation.
● Train software engineers in Clojure, software design, and functional programming in-person, on-site, and online.
● Market and sell online courses to software engineers and technology companies.

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● Orchestrate digital strategy for national museum, including web presence, podcast network, digital encyclopedia, and internal curation tool.
● Architect functional rewrite of React Native mobile app resulting in stable platform with appropriate technology choices.
● Lead software integration with large bank client, facilitating intra-organization communication

Senior Cloud Application and DevOps Engineer

ViaSat Inc

Aug 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 2 months)

● Collaborate with executives on company-wide engineering principles and onboarding training.
● Technical lead of a team of eight software engineers, guiding product direction of legacy system and improving productivity.
● Advise and coach a team of six developers on product direction, software design, and development practices, improving software quality, reducing attrition, and increasing productivity.
● Train 20+ people in Clojure and software design.

Senior Software Engineer

Democracy Works

Mar 2015 - Mar 2016 (1 year 1 month)

● Architect and build Clojure microservices system with continuous deployment and triple redundancy.
● Advise on software design practices to improve the quality of delivered software.
● Co-develop engineering practices with team of eight engineers.

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Chief Technology Officer

Second Chance Technologies LLC

Jun 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 9 months)

● Collaborate on strategic planning with CEO and founder.
● Present product to 3 potential international acquirers.
● Architect and build a product search engine and product matching server with 50 million products.
● Engineer and train a machine learning product matching engine, achieving 90% accuracy.
● Simplify operations to cut monthly infrastructure costs by 60% and reduce maintenance overhead.

Software Engineer

Scrive

Sep 2010 - Jun 2013 (2 years 10 months)

● Devise model of signed contracts that leads the industry in legal application.
● Lead business intelligence efforts with data-driven insights that included over ten key metrics.
● Co-develop (with CTO) engineering processes to become the most productive team in the company.
● Design intuitive contract signing flow that was copied by Docusign.
● Lead organic growth team.

Computer Scientist

NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY

Sep 2007 - Dec 2009 (2 years 4 months)

● Research and engineer Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms for Information Extraction.
● Architect integration RDF database to connect dozens of intelligence systems.
● Coordinate and direct dozens of contractor projects.
● Lead contractors in multi-million-dollar project.

Mathematics Teacher

Peace Corps

Jun 2005 - Feb 2007 (1 year 9 months)

● Teach Mathematics for classes of up to 80 students for 8th, 9th, and 10th grades.
● Engineer mathematics curriculum for three grade levels.
● Organize Girl's Camp, a nation-wide program to empower women in their communities.
● Train 30 volunteers in teaching techniques, cultural awareness, and life skills.

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Senior Software Developer

Bluefield Software Inc

Oct 2004 - Jun 2005 (9 months)

● Create early mobile application with a web backend to synchronize state across devices.
● Technical advising on IT operations and engineering choices.
● Develop business plan to pitch to potential investors.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of New Orleans

Jan 2003 - Jun 2004 (1 year 6 months)

●Research and engineer rescue robots that competed in international robotics competition, winning an award for innovative interface.
● Develop regression testing analysis software that analyzes software changes and targets which tests to run, resulting in significantly faster test runs.

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Software Engineer

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES INC

Jul 2002 - Dec 2002 (6 months)

● Research and train a team in XML and web services technologies.

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Special Projects Developer

UNO Real Estate Market Data Center

Feb 1999 - Feb 2000 (1 year 1 month)

● Maintain and improve shrink-wrap software product, resulting in significant performance, functionality, user experience, and code clarity improvements.
● Experiment with early web application port of software.

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