Eric Edens is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years' experience building and maintaining production-grade back-end and DevOps tooling at companies including Google and Amazon. He has deep experience in cloud image tooling and build/release infrastructure—contributing significant refactors and bug fixes to GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-tools—and has led JDK and Corretto container efforts at Amazon. Comfortable in large-scale engineering environments, he blends systems-level troubleshooting, test-driven integration work, and pragmatic refactors to prepare codebases for future change. Based in Seattle, he also contributes to open-source projects like DuckDuckGo’s fathead instant-answer tooling, and balances his technical life with volunteering for animal rescue at PAWS.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Chemistry, Chemistry at University of Cambridge
Master of Education - MEd, Master of Education - MEd at Claremont Graduate University
Computational Chemistry, Computational Chemistry at Pomona College
Tools and scripts for Google Compute Engine images.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:22 releases, 583 reviews, 273 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the image import tools for Google Compute Engine. Their contributions include significant refactoring to prepare the codebase for future changes, such as removing gcsfuse dependency. They addressed integration test failures, brought back manual disk attachment, and improved error messaging. Furthermore, they were involved in the testing and bug fixing process for different operating system versions.
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Eric focused on developing and maintaining the back-end logic for generating DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files. Their contributions involved parsing MDN documentation and integrating it into the project. The user implemented features like indexing for disambiguation and redirects. They also refactored code to ensure UTF-8 encoding and improve the formatting of output files.
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