Eric Hellman
Founder at EbookFoundation
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Hellman is a founder and open-source champion with 14 years of experience, best known as Co-Founder and President of the Ebook Foundation and the operator behind GITenberg and Gluejar. Based in New Jersey, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on stewardship of digital libraries and tools—contributing to projects like gutenbergtools and gitenberg-dev that make public-domain literature accessible at scale. His work sits at the intersection of publishing, metadata curation, and developer tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on preservation and distribution rather than traditional product-market growth. Colleagues know him for quietly running infrastructure that empowers large volunteer communities and for turning archival challenges into reproducible, code-driven solutions.
15 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
89reputation
4kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
epub10
ebook-reader10
command-line-tool10
project-gutenberg10
cpp10
capstone10
common-files10
python10
questions-and-answers10
django10
webapp10
pure-python10
cherrypy10
image-processing10
javascript10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
gutenbergtools/altpoet
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
alt text editing/creation backend
Contributions:3 reviews, 33 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 7 months
backendtext-editing
GITenberg/Great-Expectations_1400
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 7 months
charlesgreat-expectationsexpectationsgutenberggreat
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