Eric Crooks

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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Eric Crooks is a freelance software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and building distributed systems that are fast, stable, and easy to scale. He converts ambiguous product visions into resilient, observable architectures on AWS/Azure/GCP while also handling front-end needs with best-fit frameworks. Known for treating unit testing, observability, and documentation as first-class system components, he helps teams and startups ship dependable software. A hands-on polyglot, Eric contributes across stacks—his GitHub work includes a full-stack migration of a Deno + Drash RealWorld example app, touching both Vue.js front-end and backend models. Based in Raleigh, he blends technical depth with product sensitivity informed by leadership studies at Harvard Business School Online. Outside of code he pursues woodworking, journaling, and long walks with his dogs, which he says keeps his design thinking grounded.

10 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

Web Design and New Media, Web Design and New Media at Academy of Art University

Certificate of Completion, Business Management and Leadership, Certificate of Completion, Business Management and Leadership at Harvard Business School Online

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at DeVry University

Certification of Achievement, Graphic Communications, Certification of Achievement, Graphic Communications at College of Southern Nevada

Github Skills (17)

deno10

javascript10

vuex10

fullstack-development10

full-stack10

realm10

realms10

front-end-development10

vue-jsx10

apidoc9

api9

backend8

back-end-development8

typescript4

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptMDXShellC++RustJavaScriptVueGo

Github contributions (5)

drashland/deno-drash-realworld-example-app

May 2020 - May 2021

Deno + Drash RealWorld example app

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:12 reviews, 197 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year

Contributions summary:Eric appears to be migrating a RealWorld example application built with Deno and Drash. The commits show significant work on the front-end, including modifying Vue.js components (like ArticleEdit.vue) and updating the Vuex store and routing. The user also made modifications to backend resources and database models indicating a comprehensive involvement across the entire application stack. These commits showcase their ability to work across both front-end and back-end components.

deno-deploydrashdenotypescriptapplication

drashland/rhum

Jun 2020 - Dec 2022

A test double library

Contributions:10 releases, 46 reviews, 626 commits in 2 years 6 months

testingdoubledenotest-doublenode

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