Eric Soroos
Chief Technology Officer at Derilinx
Summary
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RockstarEric Soroos is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with eight years of hands-on engineering experience and a strong background in backend systems. As CTO at Derilinx he blends strategic leadership with day-to-day development, contributing directly to open source projects like CKAN where his work improved internationalization, timeout handling, and test infrastructure for a widely used data management system. He excels at turning operational pain points into resilient, maintainable solutions and is comfortable navigating both product and infrastructure trade-offs. Based in Ireland, he brings a practical, bug-to-architecture perspective that helps teams ship reliable data platforms at scale.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
ckan10
api10
backend10
python10
http-request10
postgresql9
database-administration8
databases8
open-data8
database8
admin8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 37 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to improving the CKAN data management system. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to internationalization, such as caching license translations, and addressing UI issues. They also implemented features like adding timeout parameters to requests for better resource management and error handling. Additionally, they updated configuration calls and made improvements to the testing infrastructure.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
derilinx/ckanext-geoview
May 2018 - Mar 2025
CKAN Geospatial ResourceView
Contributions:28 pushes, 15 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 11 months
ckangeospatialgis
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