Eric Hochberger
Co-Founder & CEO at Mediavine
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolEric Hochberger is a founder-led technology executive who has scaled Mediavine from a handful of SEO-driven websites into the leading ad management platform for content creators, blending deep engineering instincts with product and business strategy. As Co-Founder and CEO since 2004 he drove technical innovations in programmatic advertising—most notably pioneering lazy-loading ads to improve site performance and ad viewability—while growing the company to 165+ employees and earning repeated industry recognition. A University of Michigan-trained computer engineer, Eric remains hands-on with engineering and data-driven monetization, and has contributed to open-source Ruby tooling focused on practical string and URL handling enhancements. Based in Florida, he combines entrepreneurial persistence with a maker’s attention to code-level detail, and balances that intensity at home with a lively pack of dogs.
14 years of coding experience
B.S.E. Computer Engineering, B.S.E. Computer Engineering at University of MichiganPine Crest School
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Github Skills (9)
testing10
text-manipulation10
strings10
ruby10
api8
apidoc8
iso6
ruby-on-rails6
duration6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rsl/stringex
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Some [hopefully] useful extensions to Ruby’s String class. It is made up of three libraries: ActsAsUrl [permalink solution with better character translation], Unidecoder [Unicode to Ascii transliteration], and StringExtensions [miscellaneous helper methods for the String class].
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the `stringex` library, which provides extensions to Ruby's `String` class. Their contributions centered around adding and modifying functionalities, such as making the slash conversion optional in the `to_url` method and introducing a character limit feature. They also updated the code with tests to ensure proper functioning of the new implementations. This involved modifying existing methods and adding new features like limiting the URL length.
miscellaneousstringasciislugifytranslation
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