Eddie Freeman

Solutions Engineer · Developer Platforms · AI-Native

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Eddie Freeman

Solutions Engineer · Developer Platforms · AI-Native

15+ years shipping production systems, and a working practice at the seam between technical capability and business need — carrying design intent into implementation, building platform capability other teams ship on, and negotiating the vendor relationships that unblock a roadmap.

Portland, OROpen to senior / staff roles
17primary agents in production — the rest are sub-agents the active ones invoke
1M+downloads on mobile apps powered by SDKs I built
~100engineers interviewed for a vetted talent network
15+years across consumer mobile, SDKs, and agentic AI

What I'm good at

Partner & vendor developmentEAP agreements and executive relationships that turn a platform vendor into a roadmap channel — early technology access and genuine influence on what ships. One vendor, one business.
Design ↔ engineering translationTrusted to carry intent, not specs. Automated design-conformance checks against Figma tokens.
Platform capabilityFounded a React Native practice; SDKs adopted across business units; an agentic operations platform running a live business end to end across six domains.
Operational ownershipDecision-support BI, CI/CD, observability, deployment enablement, and payroll compliance auditing.
Accessibility-first practiceCognitive accessibility in particular — built a BI layer an owner who doesn't think in spreadsheets actually uses.

Now

Simply Build / Your Curlfriend — Co-Owner & Platform Engineer

Portland, OR · Aug 2025 – Present

I own the technical-partner side of a business I co-own — EAP agreements and working relationships with platform vendors — and architected the agentic operations platform that runs it end to end.

financepayrollintakeretailcontenthiring
1 hr → 10–30 minWeekly payroll effort, via an audit agent encoding Oregon labor rules — catches a real compliance discrepancy roughly every two weeks.
Square → MangomintBooking and POS migrated with no material disruption to live operations, establishing the data feed the BI and agent layers run on.
Early technology accessEAP agreements with Mangomint, plus regular conversations with their business leaders about platform gaps. Webhooks I can name; the rest is under NDA.
  • Architected and operate an agentic operations platform running the business end to end — apps, automations, a CRM, and a collection of 17 primary agents across finance, payroll, intake, retail, content, and hiring, coordinated through an event-driven registry.
  • Built the platform's decision-support layer — damped-trend revenue projections, KPI management, and staff career mapping — designed around cognitive accessibility for an operator who doesn't think in spreadsheets. The numbers went from avoided to acted on.
  • Built a payroll audit agent encoding Oregon hourly labor rules with private staff confirmation loops — cut payroll effort from ~1 hour to 10–30 minutes weekly, catching a real compliance discrepancy roughly every two weeks before each run finalizes.
  • Migrated booking and POS from Square to Mangomint with no material disruption to live operations, establishing the data feed the BI and agent layers run on — and own the vendor relationship it opened: EAP agreements and early access to new technology, webhooks I can name publicly plus further features under NDA, earned in regular conversations with Mangomint’s leadership about gaps in their platform.

Selected experience

Frontdoor (Streem) — Senior Software Engineer

Portland, OR · Feb 2023 – Jul 2026

Founded the React Native initiative and architected 2 cross-platform video-conference SDKs adopted across 2 business units, powering live expert video calls in apps with 1M+ downloads and near-5-star ratings.

  • Led the Twilio → Amazon Chime video migration ahead of vendor sunset, enabled by an adapter pattern designed into the SDK up front; wrapped native SDKs in an Expo module with Kotlin and Swift platform implementations.
  • Prototyped design-conformance automation pulling Figma design tokens to verify implementation matched design, catching color and spacing mismatches during build rather than in late review; presented to executive leadership including the incoming CTO and earned a seat on the AI Champions team.
  • Diagnosed delivery flow — not pipeline speed — as the constraint on the contractor portal, where finished work sat undeployed in lost branches; drove adoption of trunk-based development with preview environments and expanded test coverage.
  • Established operational-excellence practice: container-as-a-service deployment enablement unused for years prior, runbooks replacing tribal knowledge and meeting-based handoffs, app-to-SDK observability traceability, and maintainability patterns for LLM, React Native, and web operations.

Eight Sleep — Software Engineer

Portland, OR · Jan 2021 – May 2022

Led a React Native team of 3–5 on the smart-bed companion app handling sensitive health data — release confidence ~20% → ~80%, 99.2% median app stability.

  • Replaced ill-fitting crash and analytics tooling with Embrace for first-class React Native support; standardized logging practice and built automated data-injection pipelines into Kustomer for customer support.
  • Defined an impact-vs-severity triage framework pairing performance and customer-inbound signals with a product-owner on-call cycle — shifting incident response from reactive firefighting to prioritized, data-backed decisions. Improved team burn-down ~22%.

Wandering Hearth Studio — Founder & Principal Consultant

Portland, OR · 2015 – Present

Consulting on developer experience, sustainable process, and cross-platform architecture — concurrent with employment. Led 5 interns with minimal mobile experience to a full-stack React Native MVP — serverless backend, user creation, appointment booking — inside a 5-week accelerator.

Eight SleepKamino CareStackPathFlapdoEarly-stage AI startup

    Earlier career

    2022 – 2023
    Inkitt — Senior Frontend Engineer. Resolved an architectural flaw destabilizing CodePush OTA releases; built a proposal system that made technical direction visible across time zones.
    2019
    Infinite Red (uShip) — Freelance Software Engineer. ~24% code-smell reduction, ~15% fewer remote-handling error reports, 2 major features with a core team of 3.
    2018 – 2019
    Apex Systems (Nike) — Lead Software Engineer. Grew a secure internal React/React Native product catalog from a two-week MVP into a shared-code platform other Nike teams sought to join, with a data model adopted as the org’s single source of truth.
    2016 – 2017
    Ticketfly / Eventbrite — Mobile Engineer (iOS) · Editor-in-Chief. Two consumer apps at 500k–1M+ MAU; cut event-search lookups from seconds to milliseconds; used traffic data to unstick a stalled decision, then led 12 engineers to a Kotlin MVP in a 3-day hackathon.
    2012 – 2014
    Crittercism / Apteligent — Senior Developer Success Engineer. Employee #8 through 12x growth to 100+, supporting ~10,000 developers; built Unity and Appcelerator plugins; a knowledge repository that cut repetitive inquiries ~65%.
    Earlier
    Technology Evangelist, ngmoco/DeNA (mobile gaming & social platform) · Software Engineer, Noblis (healthcare & government).

    Speaking & community

    Interviewed ~100 engineers for G2i, a vetted developer talent network, and served on the hiring committee that staffed Frontdoor’s AHS mobile team.

    G2iLeveraging AI to Keep Up with the Evolving AI LandscapeAI-Powered Development Series, Part 1 — building a sustainable system to adopt AI developments without burning out.
    The Tech AcademyBoost Your Productivity with AI-Powered WorkflowsHour-long Tech Talk, September 2025.

    Also a commissioned private engagement for business owners on AI workflows (2025), and internal Frontdoor sessions on AI engineering, agentic and multi-agent systems, debugging practice, and documentation standards. I write at thebetween.space, on technology, culture, and the space between.

    Skills

    Customer-facing
    Technical discoverySolution architectureVendor & partner relationship managementTechnical evaluation & build-vs-buyExecutive presentationDeveloper education & enablementDocumentation & runbooks
    AI & agentic systems
    Multi-agent architectureEvent-driven orchestrationControl-plane designAgent observabilityHuman-in-the-loop gatingClaude APIMCPLLM evaluation
    Languages, frontend & mobile
    TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonKotlinSwiftReactReact NativeExpoNext.jsAstroCross-platform SDKs
    Backend, infrastructure & observability
    Node.jsAWSCloudflare WorkersPostgresFirebaseGitHub ActionsGitLab CIDatadogEmbraceLangfuse
    Practice
    Accessibility-first designCognitive accessibilityTrunk-based developmentE2E & integration testingTechnical mentorship

    Education

    2004 – 2009
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo — Computer Engineering coursework — embedded systems, circuit design, software systems, and early AI reasoning; further coursework in Philosophy and Psychology.
    Continued
    Berkeley City College — Creative Writing and electives.