Erin Platko

Flexible, full-stack developer with 8+ years of experience maintaining open-source software. Excited about API design and developer experience, and experienced writing tests and contributing to CI/CD workflows. Familiar with a wide range of technologies, and able to integrate into a team and pick up unfamiliar codebases quickly. Eager to document domain-specific knowledge and decrease development friction.

Projects

Toolbox for Reddit

2017–2026Browser extensionJavascript, jQuery, React

Developed advanced moderation tools for Reddit communities, with over 100,000 installations
Led several codebase modernization efforts, including Typescript migration and converting jQuery-based UIs to React
Contributed to project architecture discussions and authored technical documentation for in-house data formats

Yuuko

2015–2022API libraryTypescript

Released a framework for writing Discord bots that respond to user commands
Exercised extensible API design, simplifying large bot development and providing flexible extension points without compromising type safety
Wrote a CI/CD pipeline and unit tests, and contributed to upstream libraries

FFXIV Wiki

2025–PresentAutomationPython, Lua, Mediawiki

Contributed to various datamining scripts that extract game data and automatically create/update wiki pages
Documenting and improving Lua modules to increase efficiency and optimize page load times
Introduced new on-wiki systems for project management and asynchronous collaboration

/r/anime

2017–2020Community infraGithub Actions, Node

Built a custom CI/CD workflow for building and deploying CSS assets
Developed a full-stack web app for a community awards program, including a comprehensive administration dashboard
Served as informal sysadmin, managing deployment infrastructure for various web apps

Professional Experience

Hyland Software

2020–2022R&D InternAngular, Node, C# .NET/WPF

Joined as a summer intern and stayed on as a part-time dev team member during the school year
Reimplemented features of an existing C# desktop application in Angular for the web
Contributed developer experience improvements to the integration test workflow
Picked up bugs and investigtions in unfamiliar codebases and prioritized tasks effectively

The University of Akron

2019–2025Python, C++, Ruby, Javascript, Rust

Completed 104 credits towards a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science
Relevant coursework:
- Software engineering techniques
- Data structures
- Operating systems and multithreading
- Internet systems
- Database management