Eric Holmes
Founder & CEO at BossDrop
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Holmes is a founder and systems-minded engineering leader with 16 years of experience building full-stack products and reliable mission-critical systems. As Founder & CEO of BossDrop he’s creating autonomous AI systems that remove bureaucratic drag and automate middle-management workflows, after previously architecting TradeFuse, an end-to-end AI trading analytics platform. His background includes five-plus years as a systems engineer at Raytheon working on guidance and navigation software—bringing rigorous requirements, V&V, and flight-test discipline to startup product development. Eric is a hands-on engineer comfortable across web, data pipelines, DevOps and low-level systems, and has meaningful open-source contributions to notable projects like the Restforce Salesforce client and the Stacker CloudFormation orchestrator. He pairs a physics/math-rooted problem-solving approach (MS in Aerospace Engineering) with practical product instincts and a long-term focus on founding category-defining tech that funds ambitious scientific and space endeavors. An unusual thread through his work is blending aerospace-grade reliability with commercial AI automation to deliver practical, auditable systems.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Auburn University
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (26)
salesforce-api10
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
docker10
middleware10
faraday10
api-design10
restful-api10
rspec10
rails10
object-oriented-programming10
dockers10
ruby10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
restforce/restforce
Aug 2012 - Apr 2015
A Ruby client for the Salesforce REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:424 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the core structure and functionality of the Restforce client for the Salesforce REST API. Their work involved defining the initial structure, configuration, and client interactions, including the creation of essential classes and modules like `Restforce::Config`, `Restforce::Client`, and the underlying middleware components. They also implemented methods for interacting with the Salesforce API, such as retrieving SObject descriptions and performing SOQL queries, forming the foundation for the library's core functionality. Furthermore, they worked on features like handling attachment bodies and implementing authentication, enhancing the client's robustness.
restruby-clientsalesforce-rest-api
cloudtools/stacker
Sep 2015 - Nov 2019
An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 191 commits, 103 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the project by implementing and configuring infrastructure-as-code, specifically focused on running the application within Docker containers. They added a Dockerfile to facilitate containerization and updated the README to reflect this new deployment method. Furthermore, the user made changes to the logging configuration and added options to enhance the user experience by tailoring the stacker build/destroy process with flags like `--tail` and `--max-parallel`. These changes demonstrate an understanding of build processes and improving deployment flexibility.
aws-cloudformationpythoncloudformationdevops
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