Eric Floehr
Founder And CEO at ForecastWatch
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolEric Floehr is a founder and CEO with 15+ years of hands-on software development and product leadership experience, currently running ForecastWatch—the industry-standard verification platform used by major players like Apple, Google, and the UK Met Office. He combines end-to-end technical expertise (architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and operations) with entrepreneurial discipline to deliver on-time, on-budget products in resource-constrained environments. Previously a CTO and senior architect, he has led teams that shipped high-throughput, revenue-critical systems and innovative consumer products, and he continues to advise engineering teams after transitioning to his own company. An active member of the Python community, Eric founded the Central Ohio Python User Group and helped grow PyOhio into the largest regional Python conference, championing accessibility and inclusion. His open-source contributions include low-level work on the beeware/voc transpiler—implementing core data types and tests—demonstrating a willingness to dive into language runtimes and interoperability projects. Based in Dublin, Ohio, he blends product-first thinking with deep systems craftsmanship and a track record of turning side projects into industry-standard services.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityBS, Computer and Information Science, BS, Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
transcode10
python10
transpiler10
java10
data-structure9
bytecode9
data-structures9
testing8
apache6
trac6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
beeware/voc
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
A transpiler that converts Python code into Java bytecode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the implementation of core data type functionalities within the voc project, a transpiler for Python. Their commits focused on adding support for bytearray and handling operations for existing types like dict and bytes. They made changes to Java code, specifically addressing the multiplication operation for dict and the deep copying of byte arrays. The contributions extended to testing, including adding and modifying tests to incorporate the newly implemented features, specifically in the context of data types such as bool and int.
java-bytecodepythontranspiler
efloehr/timelapse
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:125 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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