Eric Edem is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, server infrastructure, and build environments for production Linux deployments. He has led architecture and delivery for multirobot coordination and task management at Zebra/Fetch Robotics, shipping scalable optimization and orchestration stacks for fulfillment robotics. Comfortable across the full stack, Eric blends backend services, tooling, and internal observability apps with frontend work (including contributions to the Slate rich text editor) to solve operational and developer-facing problems. His background spans distributed systems, databases, compilers, and numerical simulation, and he has a master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University. Known for stabilizing and scaling complex systems, he also brings practical experience creating visual programming DSLs and ETL pipelines that bridge research and production. Based in San Jose, he aims to work with cutting-edge tools to produce high-quality, maintainable software.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Physics, BS, Computer Science and Physics at Santa Clara University
MS, Computer Science and Engineering, MS, Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University Graduate Engineering
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 21 PRs, 189 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the Slate rich text editor framework by fixing bugs and implementing new features within the example applications. Their work involved addressing issues related to event handling, focus management, and incorrect handler attachments. They also added a new "mentions" example, including floating suggestions menus and updated the example navigation to be responsive. Finally, the user updated the mentions example to use the current Slate version and added mobile device support.
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