Eric Harmeling
Member Of The Technical Staff at Anthropic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Harmeling is a Member of the Technical Staff and documentation lead with nine years of experience building and documenting cloud-native systems from NYC. He blends hands-on software engineering — contributing UI components and back-end database examples to the widely used CockroachDB project — with deep documentation craftsmanship gained at Anthropic, Meta, AWS, and Cockroach Labs. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped React UI improvements for distributed SQL tooling and authored database client examples in C++ and Clojure that demonstrate practical transaction handling. Eric’s background in economics and languages informs a clear, user-focused approach to technical content and cross-team collaboration. Notably, he moves fluidly between writing production code and producing high-quality docs, closing the gap between developer experience and operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Economics, Master of Science - MS Economics at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Economics Romance Languages, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics Romance Languages at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (23)
transaction10
database-api10
c-language10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
clojure-cli10
databases10
typescript10
ui-design10
clojure10
uid10
front-end-development10
sql10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/docs
Jul 2019 - May 2022
CockroachDB user documentation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:468 reviews, 847 commits, 1026 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the development of database-related examples within the CockroachDB documentation. Their commits show the implementation of C++ and Clojure code snippets that utilize the `pqxx` and `clojure.java.jdbc` libraries, demonstrating experience in interacting with a PostgreSQL database, particularly concerning transaction management and error handling. They also copied files related to examples for different versions of the documentation, showing an interest in adapting and maintaining code across different releases of the software.
user-documentationcockroachdbdatabasearangodb
cockroachdb/cockroach
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 132 commits, 166 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the UI and database console of CockroachDB. They added new UI components and functionalities, including a filled circle icon and features to display automatic statistics collection status and last update timestamps on the database pages. The user also refactored and improved existing components such as the insights table and transaction details components. These changes suggest involvement in both front-end development with React and back-end integration with the database.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
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