Eric Rice

Chief Technology Officer at Guru Experience Co.

Albany, New York, United States

About Eric Rice

Eric Rice is Chief Technology Officer at Guru Experience Co. Location: Albany, New York, United States.

I build the technical foundations that let businesses move faster, scale further, and spend smarter. Over the past 10+ years, I've led engineering at every stage, from zero-to-one startup builds to post-acquisition stabilization to full platform rebuilds as a solo architect, across SaaS, media, mobile, geospatial, and data-intensive systems. My work sits at the intersection of deep technical ownership and executive leadership. I design distributed systems, define multi-year platform roadmaps, lead and grow engineering teams, and translate architecture decisions into business outcomes that resonate with boards, investors, and product partners alike. I'm equally comfortable whiteboarding a multi-tenant service topology and presenting infrastructure strategy to a CEO. Some highlights I'm proud of: architecting a self-scaling network that monitored 100,000+ live streams in real time at ~$4K/month in infrastructure spend; rebuilding a multi-tenant platform from the ground up, alone, while reducing engineering costs by 70% and sustaining 99% uptime; cutting patron wait times at live events from 4–5 hours to under 30 minutes through a real-time digital queue product; and migrating hosting to Kubernetes while lowering infrastructure spend by 50–60%. I've founded and co-founded ventures, built and scaled high-performing engineering teams from the ground up, owned technical diligence through fundraising and acquisition, and served as the sole technical voice in client and board-level conversations. I bring both the strategic altitude and the hands-on depth to lead platform and engineering organizations through growth, change, and complexity. If you're building something ambitious and need a technical leader who can see the whole board (architecture, people, cost, delivery, and product), I'd love to connect.

Skills

  • Linux
  • Software Development
  • Go (Programming Language)

Additional experience

  • Technology Consultant

    Rice Dev Solutions, LLC

    Started July 2022

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Binghamton University