Eric Shaw
Staff Software Engineer at Self-Employed
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolEric Shaw is a Staff Software Engineer at DataRobot with a decade of engineering experience and a unique background as a former language teacher turned developer. He brings strong Python expertise (including testing and refactoring) alongside Java, JavaScript, SQL, and DevOps tooling, and has contributed meaningful test and quality improvements to the well-regarded Axelrod-Python research library for the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Based in Greater Boston, he maintains active open-source work and a personal analytics site (allthedice.com), demonstrating a blend of research-oriented thinking and product-focused engineering. Fluent in spoken Mandarin and self-taught across modern CI and container tools, he pairs cross-cultural communication skills with practical delivery of reliable backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Wesleyan University
chinese, mandarin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
game-theory9
speech-recognition9
computer-science8
multiprocessing6
french6
thread-pool6
python-multiprocessing6
googlespeechapi6
timer6
decorator6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Axelrod-Python/Axelrod
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
A research tool for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:123 commits, 27 PRs, 271 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring and testing within the `axelrod-python/axelrod` repository, a research tool for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Their contributions include modifying test cases for strategies such as BackStabber and DoubleCrosser. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in improving code quality and thoroughness of testing.
pythonprisoners-dilemmamathematicsgame-theorydilemma
eric-s-s/tdd_python
Nov 2019 - May 2023
an all purpose repository for tdd in python
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 6 months
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