Erik Kallevig

Erik Kallevig

Engineer · Leader · Technologist

Expertise

  • Leadership & Development
  • Technical Analysis
  • Platform Architecture
  • Program Management
  • Operations Strategy

Experience

  1. Head of Digital Experience Engineering Mission Lane

    Nov 2022 - Present

    • Leading the account management engineering teams to build first class user experiences for Mission Lane credit card customers and customer service agents.

  2. Senior Engineering Manager Gannett

    Oct 2012 - Sep 2022

    • Led team of 10 engineers on rebuild of usatoday.com and 100+ local news sites serving 100M+ monthly impressions. People management, platform architecture, code standards, product development. Stack: Python, Django, custom JS framework.
    • Designed and built a platform to digitize millions of public notices. Stack: Next.js (React), Hasura (PostgreSQL), Elasticsearch and a CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions, Kubernetes and Helm.
    • Designed and built an A/B testing platform and conducted live tests to optimize engagement and conversion goals.
    • Implemented and tested personalized content recommendations with behavior-based user profiles.
    • Coordinated on product development with stakeholders across the business: newsroom, marketing, advertising, product, and analytics.

  3. Senior Developer Fantasy Interactive

    Mar 2010 - Oct 2012

    • Web development and product management on client projects including Google's Think Quarterly, Think Insights with Google, A Google a Day, Google 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web, Google Zeitgeist, HTC, Coca-Cola, TravelTex.
    • Worked with clients, designers and IA team as developer, product manager and project manager.

  4. Senior Front-End Developer Sportsvite

    Jul 2008 - Mar 2010

    • Web development on core and partner Sportsvite properties: sportsvite.com, truthonhealth.org (Paul Pierce), cbsintramurals.com and playcoed.com. Site design and development, usability testing, email dev, and project management.

  5. UI Designer-Developer KeyBank

    Mar 2006 - Jun 2008

    • Web development on KeyBank's public website (key.com) and online banking application, usability testing, content management and documentation services.

  6. Front-End Developer EH Publishing

    Jan 2005 - Feb 2006

    • Web development and content management on EH's nine websites supporting the flagship publication, Electronic House, among other periodicals and yearly expos.

  7. Web Developer Strom Engineering

    2003 - 2005

    • Web development on stromengineering.com, CMS integration, job board, copywriting, and client dashboard.

A Few Things I've Done

  • Automated PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch indexing
  • Conducted usability testing sessions
  • Configured edge caching with Fastly VCL
  • Wrote Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments
  • Designed a Javascript component framework
  • Ingested data from a Pub/Sub subscription
  • Plotted locations with a Mercator algorithm and CSS
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with Github Actions
  • Created Google Cloud resources with Terraform
  • Built an A/B testing framework
  • Developed personalized content recommendations

Tools I've Used

  • agile
  • angular
  • aws
  • babel
  • backbone
  • bash
  • bdd
  • ci/cd
  • css
  • cypress
  • docker
  • elasticsearch
  • expo
  • fastly
  • fdd
  • git
  • github actions
  • go
  • gcp
  • graphql
  • grunt
  • hasura
  • helm
  • html
  • java
  • javascript
  • jenkins
  • jest
  • kanban
  • kubernetes
  • less
  • mui
  • mysql
  • next.js
  • node
  • photoshop
  • php
  • postgresql
  • python
  • react
  • react native
  • redux
  • sass
  • scrum
  • solr
  • tdd
  • terraform
  • typescript
  • uglify
  • varnish
  • vault
  • vcl (fastly)
  • vue
  • webpack
  • web sockets
  • wordpress

Education

  1. Boston University

    2001 - 2005

    Bachelor of Science, Print Journalism

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