About Eric Ewing

About Me

I'm a Director-level software leader with deep roots in architecture and product engineering. My career spans SaaS, IoT, enterprise software, and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on Microsoft and Azure ecosystems. I've led managers, architects, and ICs through large-scale transformations — not just shipping software, but building organizations capable of sustaining innovation. My mission is simple: to create engineering cultures that are product-aligned, AI-augmented, and capable of delivering fast without sacrificing long-term stability.

Technical Expertise

• Architectural Leadership: Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, cloud-native infrastructure.
• Delivery Excellence: CI/CD, test automation, DevSecOps, security-first architecture, AI-augmented development workflows.
• Platform Development: Azure, .NET Core, C#, Web API, MongoDB, CosmosDB, RabbitMQ, Event Hubs, ReactJS, IoT integration.

Organizational Expertise

• Directed global engineering teams across the U.S., Europe, and Costa Rica, scaling processes and culture without losing agility.
• Doubled engineer retention (18 to 42 months) while increasing product delivery velocity and quality.
• Designed hiring, onboarding, and compensation systems that attracted and developed top talent.
• Mentored new managers and senior ICs, equipping them to lead with clarity, accountability, and product focus.

Philosophy & Approach

• Clarity over complexity — every system and process should be understood and improved by the people who use it.
• Empower autonomous teams — product-aligned, accountable, and capable of delivering without heavy oversight.
• Balance innovation with reliability — move fast, but in a way that scales and endures.
• Adopt AI and emerging technologies responsibly — integrating them to improve quality, speed, and developer experience.
• Treat culture like a product — intentional design, constant iteration, measurable improvement.

Results

• Cut deployment lead time from weeks to minutes, enabling daily production releases.
• Reduced change failure rate below 5% and mean time to recovery to under 15 minutes.
• Scaled architecture to support thousands of IoT devices and millions of events daily.
• Rebuilt fractured teams into top performers using coaching, workflow redesign, and architectural clarity.
• Enabled continuous deployment with confidence and precision across mission-critical platforms.

Contact

Let's build something that lasts.Email: eric@ourewingfamily.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ericewing

Leadership Philosophy

I believe in establishing product-aligned, autonomous teams that deliver fast and responsibly. My approach combines technical excellence with cultural transformation, focusing on:

• Product alignment over technical silos: Teams that own customer outcomes move faster
• AI augmentation: Amplify human capabilities through sustainable, testable autonomous code generation
• Event-driven architecture: Enable loose coupling and independent deployment
• Lean delivery practices: Shift quality left and eliminate handoff waste
• Continuous learning: Technology and practices evolve rapidly

Technical Expertise

My technical background spans SaaS architecture, distributed systems, and modern cloud platforms. I specialize in Azure cloud transformations, event-driven architecture with .NET Core and C#, and building resilient systems using MongoDB, CosmosDB, and SQL Server.

Recent focus areas include AI-augmented engineering workflows, DevSecOps practices, and IoT system architecture for industrial applications.

Why I Write

This blog shares practical lessons from leading software transformations in enterprise environments. My experiences span team rehabilitation, cloud migrations, and building delivery organizations that scale intelligently.

I write for engineering leaders, software architects, and technical executives who are building resilient organizations that can adapt and scale. My goal is to share actionable insights from real-world transformations.