Eric Poe
Application Manager
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Poe is an Application Manager with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently leading development, QA, and DevOps for a mission-critical LIMS at the Stowers Institute. He combines hands-on backend PHP refactoring and API experience—demonstrated by substantial contributions to the Joind.in web and API projects—with practical release management and automated end-to-end testing. A collaborative team lead, he balances feature delivery, upgrades, and long-term maintainability through clear naming, type-hinting, and coding-standard fixes. Active in the community as a co-organizer of local PHP and MergePHP meetups and former CoderDojo curriculum director, he brings developer advocacy and mentorship to his technical management role while also being the kind of gentle coder who shows up as a dad and a kung-fu-movie aficionado.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
apidoc10
refactor10
php10
api10
refactoring10
twig10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
database-design9
pdo9
psr-29
rest-api9
http8
mysql8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
joindin/joindin-api
Aug 2017 - Oct 2020
The Joind.in API PHP Application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 23 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring and improving the structure of the API by renaming abstract classes to clearly indicate their purpose. They updated numerous controller classes, service classes, and model collections to adhere to a consistent naming convention (Base* instead of Abstract*). The commits also added type hinting for database connections and request objects, contributing to code maintainability.
apiphpphp-apiphp-application
joindin/joindin-web2
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
HTTP Frontend For the Joind.in API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on the backend of the Joind.in API frontend. Their contributions included updating the classloader, formatting whitespace in PHP files, and fixing PSR2 violations. They also made changes to various PHP files related to event and user functionalities, API interactions, and twig template files. Furthermore, they addressed code issues related to checking for empty arrays and fixing PSR2 violations.
apijavascriptfrontend
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