Eric Nelson

About Eric Nelson

Adaptive leadership style in approach to leading teams and individuals. Believer in situational leadership, open dialogue, no egos and getting to a productive state between teams and departments. Thrive in helping people succeed in their own personal and career goals, while also keeping the big picture in focus for the company as a whole.Extensive experience in software engineering and systems design. Rapid prototyping and agile methodologies. Development in Java, Scala, Objective-C, Perl, C#, Ruby, Groovy. Development on J2EE platforms and other web application frameworks, with in-depth experience in Spring/SpringBoot, Tomcat, Struts 2. Extensive knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and LPI certified.Specialties: Project design and architecture of large, scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise Java applications. Big proponent of functional programming, message driven architecture, and distributed systems (using primarily Akka). Integration of software and hardware solutions, mainly on Linux/Unix systems.

Experience

1. Director of Software Engineering

   BambooHR

   Nov 2024 — Present · Draper, UT, US

Education

• University of Phoenix

  Masters, Management Information Systems

  2005 — 2007

• Brigham Young University

  BS, Management Information Systems

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Git
• Image Processing
• Jboss Application Server
• Software Design
• Nosql
• Scrum
• Xml
• Rest
• Objective-C
• Akka
• Java
• Ruby
• Iphone Development
• Open Source
• Parallel Computing
• Tomcat
• Gridgain
• Gradle
• Databases
• Grid Computing
• Web Applications
• Mongodb
• Apache
• Guice
• Concurrent Programming
• Subversion
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Architecture
• Mysql
• Mobile Applications
• Groovy
• Struts2
• Web Services
• Struts
• Ruby on Rails
• Xcode
• Javascript