Eric Steele
Community Manager at Salesforce
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolEric Steele is a Community Manager and seasoned release engineer with 18 years of experience building and stewarding open source and enterprise software ecosystems. Based in Pennsylvania, he blends deep Python and Plone/Zope expertise with practical tooling knowledge across Selenium, Jenkins, NodeJS, and Salesforce release infrastructures. At Salesforce he architects large-scale release strategies and security scanning, while for the Plone Foundation he spent over a decade managing core releases and integrating PLIPs that shaped the CMS. His GitHub work includes maintenance and releases for widely used Python libraries such as icalendar and hands-on contributions to Plone core JavaScript and configuration. Eric is notable for pairing community leadership with hands-on release automation—often handling the mundane but critical tasks (version bumps, changelogs, release cuts) that keep projects healthy. He holds a BS in Geography from Penn State and brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset to both developer tooling and community operations.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Geography, BS, Geography at Penn State University
Github Skills (13)
release-management10
javascript10
plone10
python10
icalendar10
version-control9
parserator9
parser9
zope8
generator8
debug8
rfc8
git5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
plone/Products.CMFPlone
Jun 2008 - Apr 2021
The core of the Plone content management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:675 commits, 12 PRs, 183 pushes in 13 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on merging and integrating various PLIPs (Plone Improvement Proposals) into the `products.cmfplone` repository, affecting core Plone functionality. These changes involved modifications to configuration files (e.g., `setup.py`, `configure.zcml`, `meta.zcml`), and Javascript files (e.g., `jquery.highlightsearchterms.js`, `livesearch.js`). The commits show evidence of version bumps and the addition and modification of various Javascript functionalities related to the Plone core.
cmsmanagement-systemphpcfmlplone
collective/icalendar
Nov 2014 - Jun 2018
icalendar parser library for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the `icalendar` library by preparing and releasing new versions. These releases involved updating the version number in the `__init__.py` and modifying the `CHANGES.rst` file to reflect the changes in the release. The commits also included bug fixes, feature additions, and cleanup tasks within the Changelog.
icalendarparser-librarypythonparseralarm
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