Eric Farr

Chief Technology Officer & Technology Leader

Creating enterprise value by building empowered product teams that deliver value through modern serverless and cloud native technologies powered by AI.

Eric Farr

About Me

I'm a technology leader with over 30 years of experience in the software industry. I've led engineering teams at startups and scale-ups, driving technical strategy, architecture decisions, and organizational growth. My passion lies in delivering value by building scalable systems, fostering engineering excellence, and mentoring the next generation of tech leaders.

Professional Experience

My career journey spans leadership roles across various technology companies.

Chief Technology Officer
2021 - Present
  • Transformed the engineering organization into scalable, high-performing, empowered teams
  • Stabilized and modernized aging SaaS application
  • Migrated SaaS operations from proprietary data center to AWS
  • Harnessed serverless technologies and generative AI to deliver first release of new flagship product in 11 weeks
Chief Technology Officer
2019 - 2021
  • Drove $300k of annualized savings migrating from SQL Server to cloud services
  • Revitalized under-performing Engineering team with agile processes and XP & DevOps engineering practices (eNPS scores moved from negative to 63)
  • Drove 30% of new revenue from new product development in 2020
  • Scaled capacity through on-demand talent with contractors and UpWork
  • Integrated acquisition of Axonom
  • Performed tech diligence and integrated development teams for first 10 Revalize acquisitions

Skills & Expertise

My technical and leadership skills that drive successful outcomes.

Technical Leadership
Technical StrategyArchitecture DesignSystem DesignCloud InfrastructureDevOpsSecurity
Team Leadership
Team BuildingCoachingTalent DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesEmpowered Product Teams
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AIRAGAgentsPrompt EngineeringAgentic Coding
Programming Languages
JavaScript/TypeScriptC#PythonJavaC++Assembler
Technologies
SaaSServerlessAWSAzureReact/NextNode.js
Databases & Data
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchData WarehousingData AnalyticsMachine Learning

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Email

eric@farrnet.com

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GitHub

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