Eric Horton
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEric Horton is a Senior Software Engineer in Raleigh with 12 years of experience building automation-heavy systems that bridge research and production. Currently on GitHub's MacCloud team, he brings deep expertise in DevOps, infrastructure automation, and ML-driven data stewardship honed at SAS and through graduate research at NC State. His background combines rigorous academic training—a BS, MS, and ongoing PhD in Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA—with hands-on delivery of toolchains that provision managed MySQL services in minutes and process tens of thousands of records via AI/ML. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, and cloud tooling, he focuses on making complex systems reproducible, auditable, and fast to deploy. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful automation that turns research prototypes into repeatable, production-ready workflows.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelors, Computer Science, 4.0 at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (54)
bower10
docker9
rspec9
django8
science8
rails8
django-blog8
ruby8
vcl8
foundation8
web-application8
rubiks-cube8
fill8
routines7
binary-search7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheoryInPractice/practical-oct
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Suite of pre-processing routines, heuristic solvers, and harnesses for comparing algorithms for Odd Cycle Transversal (graph bipartization).
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years
comparingheuristicpre-processingharnessessolvers
EricHorton/terraform-vsphere-test
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
Figuring out how to hook Terraform up to VMware vSphere.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
vmware-vsphereterraformterraform-providerhookvmware
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