Eric Sandall
IT Data Center Senior Specialist
Oak Harbor, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEric Sandall is an IT Data Center Senior Specialist with 23 years of hands-on experience architecting and automating Linux- and virtualization-heavy environments for enterprises like Cisco WebEx and Ariba. He combines deep systems and network troubleshooting skills across distributions (Gentoo, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Source Mage), VMware/OpenStack virtualization, and Cisco networking with pragmatic automation using Bash, Puppet, and Git-backed workflows. As a long-time open-source maintainer and lead developer for the Source Mage GNU/Linux project, he has coordinated 40+ international contributors and managed thousands of packages, demonstrating rare large-scale distro and release management expertise. He also contributed meaningful feature work to the widely used freeglut project, showing a willingness to dive into graphics stack internals when needed. Known for building and operating VR and HPC clusters early in his career, he blends research-grade cluster experience with production datacenter automation and compliance know-how. Based in Oak Harbor, WA, he pairs technical depth with cross-cultural team leadership and a history of sustaining community-facing projects.
23 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (unfinished), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (unfinished), Computer Science at Washington State UniversityDeer Park High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
c1710
glut10
c1110
opengl10
ws-api9
winapi9
wp-api9
cross-platform8
multiplatform8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
freeglut/freeglut
Jun 2003 - Oct 2003
Free implementation of the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the FreeGLUT project by implementing and integrating various features. Their initial work involved adding single-buffered rendering capabilities for Windows, followed by incorporating Eero Pajarre's GLUT_ICON code. Further commits included updates and merges, specifically adding menu destruction callbacks, user data functionality, and window positioning adjustments. They also added the menu destruction callback and user data functions in a merged change set.
glutlinuxbsdopenglmacos
sandalle/minecraft_bigreactor_control
Feb 2014 - Sep 2022
Minecraft BigReactor Computercraft Control Program
Contributions:23 releases, 274 commits, 9 PRs in 8 years 8 months
minecraftcomputercraft
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