Eric Blom
Geospatial Data Engineer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Blom is a geospatial data engineer with 15 years of experience building full-stack, data-driven applications and pipelines that scale. He combines frontend expertise in JavaScript/React with backend work in Python, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and serverless AWS to deliver responsive internal tools and reliable AI/data processing pipelines. At Corteva he modernized testing, observability, and DevOps workflows to reduce latency and improve on-call troubleshooting, and previously built high-uptime election and newsroom systems at major publishers like the San Francisco Chronicle and National Geographic. A longtime maker of newsroom data tools, he also contributes to open-source projects such as Kdenlive—improving title editing and proxy rendering—which speaks to a pragmatic focus on performance and UX across both web and desktop domains. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a journalist’s attention to data quality and storytelling to engineering, and he actively champions better team processes, documentation, and CI/CD practices.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Journalism, Master of Science - MS Data Journalism at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science at Macalester College
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (5)
video-editing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
testing8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/kdenlive
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on improving the Kdenlive video editor's title editor and proxy rendering functionality. They fixed text alignment issues within the title editor by modifying the positioning logic based on text alignment. The user also implemented and tested improvements to the proxy rendering process, specifically lowering its priority to prevent UI slowdowns. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to the insertion order of multiple audio/video tracks, and contributed to the test suite for subtitle files.
mltvideo-editorvideoframeworkseditor
erjiang/huion-keys
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Linux program to create custom bindings for Huion tablet hotkeys
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
tabletlinuxhuionhotkeys
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