Eric Saxby
Co-Founder at Reflective Software, LLC
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Saxby is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 16+ years building resilient, low-maintenance systems for startups, enterprises, and public health agencies from Oakland, CA. He specializes in distributed systems, Elixir/Phoenix and Rust, and routinely dives deep into UI/UX, reverse-engineering APIs, and handling undocumented edge cases to keep services running with minimal oversight. As a consultant and founder at Reflective Software he has architected high-scale data pipelines that processed billions of records and safely backfilled multi-year health datasets without overloading third-party APIs. An active open-source contributor, his work spans notable projects like Vagrant, Chef, and a Rust WebRTC implementation where he improved diagnostics and SDP handling. He pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship, preferring incremental refactors that boost velocity and long-term reliability.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Molecular and Cellular Biology, BA, Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (45)
elixir10
oai10
testing10
rspec10
network-programming10
ruby10
chef-client10
smartos10
automation10
virtualization10
ice10
multimedia10
chef-solo10
automations10
rust10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
webrtc-rs/webrtc
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
A pure Rust implementation of WebRTC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 23 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed significantly to the core functionality of the webrtc-rs project. Their work includes implementing constructors for RTCSessionDescription, which is crucial for managing SDP offers, answers, and pranswers within the WebRTC framework. They also integrated stats collection for ice gatherer, sctp and data channels, and certificate data which involved modifications to several modules including ice_transport, stats, and peer_connection. This suggests a focus on improving the project's diagnostics and data reporting capabilities.
rustwebrtcvoippure-rustmediasoup
membraneframework/membrane_core
May 2021 - Dec 2021
The core of Membrane Framework, multimedia processing framework written in Elixir
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to fixing typos and improving code clarity within the Elixir-based multimedia processing framework. They corrected spelling errors in code comments and function names. The user also added typedoc documentation and made adjustments to reduce warnings and improve shutdown behavior in the element lifecycle controller. Additionally, they made changes to support crash groups across different nodes and to improve the performance of the system when pulling buffers.
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