Edward Finkler
Executive Director And Founder at Open Sourcing Mental Health (OSMI)
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Finkler is a seasoned web technologist and founder with nearly two decades of professional experience and a 30-year passion for building on the web. He has led web and security efforts at CERIAS/Purdue, served as CTO and senior engineer in startups and consultancies, and continues to advise engineering teams while building software as Funkatron. As founder and executive director of Open Sourcing Mental Health, he has mobilized research, talks, and community resources—earning the 2014 Open Source Citizen award—and has delivered 50+ talks on mental health in tech. Ed is also an award-winning open source author (creator of the Spaz Twitter client), a data- and Python-oriented developer, and an electronic music producer/visual artist who brings creative thinking to engineering problems. Based in West Lafayette, IN, he blends hands-on coding, security research, and nonprofit leadership to improve developer wellbeing and software quality. An understated strength is his ability to translate personal experience into scalable advocacy and documentation that changes workplace culture.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Creative Writing, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Creative Writing at Indiana University South BendTrinity School at Greenlawn
Stackoverflow
912reputation
141kreached
25answers
0questions
codeigniter
top-5%
Github Skills (120)
clientside10
guzzle10
palm10
slim10
php-library10
webos10
psr-710
micro-framework10
json-document10
psr-310
slim-framework10
twitter-client10
recipe10
php10
document-store10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dineshkummarc/wildgarlic
Jan 2011 - May 2011
Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
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