Eric Oestrich
Staff Backend Engineer at Adobe
Brownsburg, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolEric Oestrich is a Staff Backend Engineer with 15 years building reliable server-side systems, currently at Adobe after leadership and principal engineering roles across SmartRent, Stord, and SmartLogic. He specializes in Ruby/Rails and Elixir/Phoenix, combining deep backend craftsmanship with Linux administration to deliver scalable APIs and infrastructure. A pragmatic manager-turned-individual-contributor, he’s proven at refactoring legacy code and shaping API design—evident from his core contributions to the rspec_api_documentation project where he removed monkey patches, introduced a DSL for headers, and expanded format support. Based in Brownsburg, Indiana, he brings a hands-on, code-first approach to architecture and mentoring, often favoring clean modular design and cross-language interoperability.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Towson UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Arcadia University
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Github Skills (15)
api-rest10
rspec10
rest-api10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
documentation9
xml9
json9
webmock8
google-maps-api6
android6
doorkeeper6
google-maps6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zipmark/rspec_api_documentation
Oct 2011 - Sep 2019
Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 483 commits, 88 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on developing the core functionalities of the rspec-api-documentation library. Their contributions included refactoring the code base by removing monkey patching and implementing a DSL for setting headers. They also added capabilities to handle different data formats like XML and JSON, further improving the versatility of the documentation generation. Their work involved restructuring the code into separate modules, defining parameters for API documentation, and improving output quality.
apirailsdocumentation-generatorrubyapi-documentation
oestrich/spigot
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
A telnet test server for Grapevine's web client
Contributions:102 commits, 4 PRs, 68 pushes in 9 months
test-servertestingweb-clienttelnetgrapevine
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