Eric Howe
Software Developer at Freelance
Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Howe is a versatile software developer with 11+ years of professional experience building full-stack web and API-driven systems, primarily using Rails, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL. He’s comfortable across the stack—from UI and responsive front-ends to backend services, DevOps, and database migrations—and favors clean, maintainable designs that colleagues can pick up easily. Eric has led migrations (MongoDB to PostgreSQL), implemented TDD, and architected microservices and custom search/matching algorithms for social, media, and ecommerce products. As a longtime remote worker since 2003, he reliably coordinates distributed teams across time zones and has hands-on experience with Heroku, AWS, Docker, Puppet, and PKCS-11/HSM integrations. He also brings lower-level expertise in C, Perl, and POSIX scripting, and has applied that depth to performance-sensitive components and operational estate audits. Beyond paid work, he contributes actively on StackOverflow, reflecting a habit of teaching and continuous learning that keeps his toolkit current (recently exploring Go and ES6+).
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BMath, Pure Mathematics, BMath, Pure Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
430,980reputation
32.7mreached
5,775answers
5questions
type-conversion
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closures
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rails-migrations
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dictionary
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regex
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Github Skills (177)
scroll10
twitter-bootstrap10
postgresql10
perl10
if-statement10
ruby10
routes10
backbonejs10
encoding10
heroku10
activerecord10
floating-point10
ruby-on-rails10
plpgsql10
javascript10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mu-is-too-short/pbitmtopbm
Jan 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
mu-is-too-short/mgv
Jan 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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