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Eric Smith

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Group Manager, GTM Engineering & Ops at Tailscale
📍 United States

An engineering manager with a full-stack background, currently leading GTM Engineering & Ops at Tailscale. He has a track record of building growth and developer experience teams from scratch at Grafana Labs, migrating legacy platforms at DigitalOcean, and shipping AI products. He champions a servant leadership style and a builder-first mindset.

He is an engineering leader who remains deeply technical, stating he is "still happiest when Im in the code."

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Group Manager, GTM Engineering & Ops
Job Level
Middle
Location
United States
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GTM Engineering
His current role as Group Manager of GTM Engineering & Ops at Tailscale highlights his focus on the intersection of engineering and go-to-market strategy.
Growth & DevEx
He built the Growth Engineering and Developer Experience teams from the ground up at Grafana Labs, showing a passion for customer acquisition and DX at scale.
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Career

Work history

4-2026
Group Manager, GTM Engineering & Ops
Tailscale
5-2022 - 2-2026
Engineering Manager, Growth & Developer Experience
Grafana Labs
9-2018 - 5-2022
Engineering Manager, Website & Community
DigitalOcean
11-2016 - 11-2018
Senior Software Engineer
L.L.Bean
4-2015 - 11-2016
Senior Software Engineer
EPAM Systems
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Education
2005 - 2008
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Penn State University
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