Eric Balsa
Chief Data Officer
Jackson, Wyoming, United States
Summary
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SeniorEric Balsa is a Chief Data Officer with 16 years of experience building scalable, production-quality systems and leading data strategy from Jackson, Wyoming. He combines executive data leadership at insightLPR with deep hands-on backend engineering, contributing to Apache Traffic Server since 2009 where he optimized core transaction logic and implemented API-level improvements for a widely used HTTP caching proxy. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he bridges low-level concurrency and mutex initialization fixes with higher-level data productization and operational reliability. Eric’s long-term open-source involvement reveals a preference for shipping durable, maintainable code that powers high-throughput network services.
16 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (16)
proxy10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
apache10
caching9
disk-cache9
object-cache9
memory-cache9
web-cache9
http9
api-design8
php6
database-design6
security6
encryption6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Mar 2010 - May 2012
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily involve modifying core functionality within the Apache Traffic Server project. They have focused on optimizing the codebase by removing redundant variables in transaction state and initializing mutexes. Furthermore, the user implemented API changes, including the addition of a new function to skip remap states. They also addressed specific bugs and made other improvements within the codebase.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
ericbalsa/ericbalsa.github.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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