Web developer and software engineer with 20+ years of customer-focused web and application experience, specializing in WordPress, front-end development, and cloud technologies. Continuous client web practice throughout that time, alongside enterprise engineering roles at Dyn and Oracle, where I led a zero-downtime cloud migration of an email delivery service and a CI/CD overhaul that cut production deployment prep time by 60%. Now resetting to make web work my full-time focus on a small, collaborative team where speed, craft, and outcomes all matter. Known for clear writing, calm leadership without ego, and quietly raising the quality bar.

Erik Bertrand

Web developer and software engineer with 20+ years of customer-focused web and application experience, specializing in WordPress, front-end development, and cloud technologies. Continuous client web practice throughout that time, alongside enterprise engineering roles at Dyn and Oracle, where I led a zero-downtime cloud migration of an email delivery service and a CI/CD overhaul that cut production deployment prep time by 60%. Now resetting to make web work my full-time focus on a small, collaborative team where speed, craft, and outcomes all matter. Known for clear writing, calm leadership without ego, and quietly raising the quality bar.

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Web developer and software engineer with 20+ years of customer-focused web and application experience, specializing in WordPress, front-end development, and cloud technologies. Continuous client web practice throughout that time, alongside enterprise engineering roles at Dyn and Oracle, where I led a zero-downtime cloud migration of an email delivery service and a CI/CD overhaul that cut production deployment prep time by 60%. Now resetting to make web work my full-time focus on a small, collaborative team where speed, craft, and outcomes all matter. Known for clear writing, calm leadership without ego, and quietly raising the quality bar.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Owner & Web Developer at Asc ent Website Services
January 1, 2004 - Present
Independent web development and IT consultancy; WordPress specialist; end-to-end delivery for multiple industries; migrations and hosting; ongoing support.
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at Oracle Corporation (OCI Dyn, Inc.)
January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2026
Founding member and senior lead of the team that created and scaled the full-featured Dyn Email Delivery service to handle six billion emails per month, and created the OCI equivalent. Front-end/UI work in React.js for cloud console components; leveraged AI in daily practice for vib e coding, bug fixes, unit test authoring, and code review. Led a zero-downtime liftoff and multi-phase CI/CD rebuild; migrated an enterprise email delivery service to Oracle Cloud (Linux, ~20 host classes, several hundred servers, ~6B messages/month, hundreds of customers). Drove customer-facing engineering decisions focused on customer experience and reliability; led day-to-day collaboration via Jira, Confluence, Figma, and Slack.
Software Engineer at Kronos, Chelmsford, MA
April 1, 2006 - June 1, 2008
Lead software engineer on HRMS and Reporting applications; back-end on .NET/SQL Server and front-end UI; responsible for content updates and visual layouts for multiple large sites; coordinated email layouts for all major clients and performed data/UI integration tasks.
Web Developer at North East Delta Dental, Concord, NH
May 1, 2004 - April 1, 2006
Application development within IT; led the successful Provider web portal project; heavy data handling and web UI focus; back-end and front-end integration.

Education

BA at St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1992

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment