Eric Tendian
Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEric Tendian is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure and DevOps systems for startups and high‑traffic platforms. Currently leading the Deploy team at WP Engine, he architects safe progressive rollouts and automation for a fleet serving over a million websites and billions of daily requests. He joined Packback as engineer #2 and drove CI/CD, cloud migrations, and SLO-driven reliability efforts that enabled rapid growth and continuous deployment. Entrepreneurial and community-minded, Eric founded CrimeIsDown.com and contributes to radio monitoring open source (trunk-recorder), applying AI and GIS tools to public safety reporting. Comfortable balancing high-impact leadership with hands-on engineering, he favors pragmatic tradeoffs that deliver long-term operational success.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology and Management, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology and Management at Illinois Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Northside College Preparatory High School
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TrunkRecorder/trunk-recorder
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
Records calls from a Trunked Radio System (P25 & SmartNet)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 30 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the core functionality of the trunk-recorder project, focusing on call recording and upload features. They implemented a minimum call duration setting and added support for various uploaders, including Broadcastify and OpenMHz. Furthermore, the user refactored the uploader structure and introduced features like auto gain control and maximum call duration for splitting long calls.
raspberry-pirecordsframecallssmartnet
EricTendian/EricTendian
Jan 2015 - Aug 2024
My personal website.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 34 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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