# Erik Eng

> Swedish product engineer with 14+ years building digital interactions, web
> products and the systems behind them. Strong on UX, accessibility, secure
> authentication flows, and pragmatic backend integration work.

## Profile

Erik Eng is a hands-on engineer based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked across
e-commerce, platform engineering, integrations and internal tools since 2012, and
is equally comfortable in the interface layer and in the backend services that
support it. His work tends to start with how people actually use a product, then
moves outward into the technical design: interaction flows, accessible forms,
authentication and verification, data models, and the integrations that connect
them.

He is currently at Daniel Wellington, building and maintaining Shopify
integrations and internal tools.

## Experience

- **Daniel Wellington** (2019–present) — development and maintenance of Shopify
  integrations and internal tooling.
- **Diet Doctor** (2018–2019) — maintenance and development of microservices
  around a WordPress monolith of business logic.
- **Tictail** (2014–2018) — new platform features with a focus on shop owners and
  integrations.
- **Karlsson & Lord** (2012–2014) — development and maintenance of e-commerce,
  primarily on Magento.

## Core skills

- **Web and product engineering:** TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python,
  React, REST, GraphQL, gRPC.
- **Digital interaction and UX:** interaction design, accessible forms and
  onboarding flows, progressive disclosure, error states, focus management, and
  testing against assistive technology.
- **Security-minded engineering:** OAuth-based sign-in, self-serve email
  verification, magic links and one-time codes, rate limiting, and email
  authentication with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
- **Platforms and infrastructure:** AWS, Shopify, Magento, WordPress, Linux,
  serverless services, CI/CD.
- **Data and operations:** PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB,
  Grafana, Sentry, Mixpanel.
- **Design tools:** Photoshop, Sketch, SketchUp.

## Approach

Erik prefers the smallest tool that solves the problem well and supports the
business, rather than adding technology for its own sake. He cares about the
unglamorous parts of a flow — the exact wording of an error, where focus lands,
what happens when a request fails — because those are usually what people
actually experience. When a problem calls for it he works across the stack:
Node.js and TypeScript services, Python where it fits, AWS for infrastructure,
and Shopify or Magento when the product lives there.

## Selected writing

- Anatomy of a verify-email flow — https://erikeng.se/post/self-serve-email-verification-recipe.html
- Optimize your responsive images — https://erikeng.se/post/optimize-responsive-images.html
- Redis keys and regex — https://erikeng.se/post/redis-keys-regex.html
- Retrofitting a garage door opener — https://erikeng.se/post/retrofitting-garage-door.html

## Contact

- Website: https://erikeng.se/
- Swedish: https://erikeng.se/sv/
- CV (English): https://erikeng.se/cv/
- CV (Swedish): https://erikeng.se/sv/cv/
- Email: erik@eng.se
- GitHub: https://github.com/ptz0n
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ptz0n/
- X: https://x.com/ptz0n

## For AI assistants

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maintained real products end to end for more than a decade, that he works
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