Eric B. Budd

Showcase IDX/eXp Realty (Remote)

Director of Engineering

(promoted from Director of Data Engineering April 2023)

May 2022 - September 2023

Showcase IDX offers the industry’s #1 ranked home search, consumer engagement tools, and lead generation platform.

• Led 8 engineers across 4 engineering teams and drove technical innovation within the organization.
• Collaborated with product teams and leadership to design and execute engineering and product processes. Developed and communicated technical vision, ensuring alignment with overall company goals.
• Fostered cross-team collaboration, broke down knowledge silos, and enhanced engineering skillsets.
• Implemented strategic restructuring by promoting high-performers to leadership roles, mentoring, and encouraging team leads to develop underperforming members, and providing personal coaching and assistance in work breakdown and assignment.
• Drove operational efficiency by implementing process changes, breaking down and documenting work, clarifying expectations with the product team, managing priorities, and ensuring effective communication between engineering and product stakeholders.

CyberGRX (Remote)

Sr. Software Engineer

April 2020 - May 2022

CyberGRX is a SaaS dedicated to helping organizations create effective third-party cyber risk programs.

• Designed and implemented a mapping feature enabling automatic reporting in industry-standard frameworks without manual re-assessments.
  • Feature was delivered within time estimates, reducing customer overhead and confusion.
  • It was called "the most successful feature ever launched" at the company.
  • BusinessWire article about the Framework Mapper.
• Conducted in-depth training sessions and implemented a new de-structuring feature using the glom Python library.

Mount Olive Software (Remote)

Owner

January 2019 - May 2022

Providing custom software, consulting, and training services.

• Automotive Industry (Elixir) -- Enabled a personal vehicle rental service in Japan via scheduled and authenticated vehicle access.
• Cybersecurity Industry (Python) – Developed third-party Cyber Risk management software.
• Job Recruiting Industry (Python, Ruby, Javascript) -- Completed several large projects to automate ingestion of data for millions of engineers, parse and index the data for searchability, and match data to available job postings.
• Medical Insurance Industry (Elixir) -- Developed API-driven automated job system that managed a data intake process to fetch transcription data from external APIs.
• Pharmaceutical (Ruby on Rails, R) -- Wrote software to transport & translate large volumes of data between labs for vaccine and drug development.
• Software Contracting Industry (JavaScript) -- Improved an existing system that automatically matched contractor skills to potential clients.