Eric Appelt
Site Reliability Engineer at Vanderbilt University
Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolEric Appelt is a Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating petascale data platforms, HTC/HPC clusters, and web services, currently focused on reliability at Vanderbilt University. He combines a PhD in nuclear physics and a strong mathematics background with hands-on software and systems engineering—authoring analysis and simulation code, REST APIs, and infrastructure monitoring in Python, C/C++, and shell. His career spans research-grade computing for the LHC, production cloud service development at IBM Cloudant, and long-running operational leadership of university compute facilities. An active contributor to CPython documentation, he brings a rare mix of scientific rigor, teaching experience, and practical DevOps instincts to tame complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mathematics, Master’s Degree Mathematics at Miami UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Nuclear Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Nuclear Physics at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (10)
python10
sphinx10
documentation10
sphinxsearch10
algorithm6
pandas6
html6
dictionary6
travis-ci6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
python/cpython
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
The Python programming language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:4 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the documentation of the Python programming language. Their work involved clarifying and refining the documentation of time-related functions, adding explanations and examples, and improving consistency. They also updated documentation related to the `abc` module, including examples and clarified usage for abstract base classes. Additionally, the user added documentation for the `__trunc__` special method.
python-programmingprogramming-languagepythonpython-programming-language
appeltel/AutoCMS
May 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:264 commits, 2 PRs, 173 pushes in 3 years 5 months
slurmtestingsitescomputing
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