Eric Bollens
Chief Technology Officer at LightBox
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Bollens is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with 15+ years leading engineering, data and infrastructure organizations across real estate, environmental, education and energy sectors. At LightBox he architects petabyte-scale data platforms and APIs that ingest thousands of sources, process billions of spatial and raster elements, and support trillions in CRE transactions for banks, mapping providers and government agencies. He excels at unifying data assets into product-led platforms—designing federated knowledge graphs, ML/NLP pipelines and massively parallel compute environments while reorganizing teams for product velocity. Previously CTO of CloudCompli and Open Source Architect at UCLA, he blends enterprise software delivery, public-private research initiatives, and open-source leadership. An active contributor to notable projects like the Laravel framework and a GitHub Artic Code Vault presence, he couples practical coding chops with boardroom strategy. Based in Irvine, he’s also an entrepreneur, educator and civic-minded technologist who repeatedly wins innovation awards for applied data solutions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mirman SchoolCrossroads School for Arts & SciencesUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing10
http9
form-builder8
symfony-ux7
symfony7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on improving test coverage and functionality within the Laravel framework. Their contributions include adding support for form builder options, enhancing tests for session and cookie functionalities, and improving the test coverage of views and HTTP responses. Additionally, they addressed pass-by-reference issues within the view component, and refactored code for better clarity.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
IMSGlobal/casa-protocol
May 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:142 commits, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
specificationcasa
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