Eric Barbour

Portland, OR

Eric Barbour

Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager with 9+ years of experience building full-stack product platforms in regulated industries. Experienced across direct-to-consumer insurance funnels, underwriting tools, carrier integrations, and developer-experience automation using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS.

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Experience

Oct 2024 - Present

Fabric Insurance

Startup

Engineering Manager

Leading a 10-engineer team responsible for Fabric's direct-to-consumer term life funnel, underwriting workbench, and Gerber Life enterprise storefront.

  • Launched a new Accidental Death insurance product in August 2025 and the Gerber Life DTC storefront in June 2026
  • Modernized engineering hiring around AI-assisted coding exercises and hired 3 engineers
  • Completed performance cycles, promoted one engineer, and strengthened execution across the team
  • Partnered with parent-company technical teams to align delivery plans for the enterprise storefront and upcoming funnel migration
TypeScriptReactGatsbyNode.jsAWSSQS

Mar 2021 - Oct 2024

Fabric Insurance

Startup

Staff Software Engineer

Architected product systems and integration patterns for a direct-to-consumer life insurance platform.

  • Built full-stack DTC insurance workflows across onboarding, application interviews, underwriting, and policy purchase
  • Integrated Hannover Re Reflex, predictive models, ExamOne, LexisNexis, two carriers, and reinsurance workflows
  • Designed resilient third-party integration patterns for outages, retries, timeouts, and recovery
  • Built underwriting workbench and supporting data flows for roughly 100 offer decisions per day
  • Developed a personalized recommendation engine that increased offer-to-purchase conversion by 12% in a VWO A/B test
  • Improved developer workflows with Elastic Beanstalk CLI tooling, CI migration, and Bolt component library contributions
TypeScriptReactGatsbyNode.jsAWSSQS

Jun 2020 - Mar 2021

WillowTree Apps

Agency

Senior Software Engineer

Led architecture and development for greenfield full-stack applications from design through production.

  • Led architecture and delivery of greenfield full-stack applications for enterprise clients including Lidl US, Orangetheory, and Anheuser-Busch
  • Delivered React and Vue product experiences and Node/Go APIs with accessibility, mobile-first UX, automated testing, preview environments, and CI/CD
  • Developed a high-availability Go e-commerce API for a national grocery chain with graceful degradation under peak load
TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLAWS

Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

WillowTree Apps

Agency

Software Engineer II

Built performant web applications for enterprise clients with a focus on accessibility and modern practices.

  • Delivered performant React and Vue applications for enterprise clients, championing accessibility and mobile-first patterns
  • Designed CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and preview environments, reducing deployment cycles from days to hours
JavaScriptReactVue.jsNode.jsAWS

Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

WillowTree Apps

Agency

Software Engineer

Developed distributed systems for high-traffic e-commerce applications.

  • Developed a distributed Go e-commerce API for a national grocery chain, designing for high availability and graceful degradation under load
GoJavaScriptDockerAWS

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barbour.ericm@gmail.com