Eric Vitale
Executive Director, Platform & Technology Strategy
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Vitale is an accomplished technology leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and platforms across pharma and commercial sectors, currently serving as Executive Director of Platform & Technology Strategy at Evinova. He spent a decade at AstraZeneca leading science, clinical development, and digital health engineering—adding high-performance computing and RPA to his toolkit—and earlier ran large web, mobile, and BI organizations at The Hershey Company. A Penn State MBA and University of Pittsburgh-trained computer engineer, Eric combines deep operational rigor with product-focused delivery and vendor/contract management. He’s also an active crypto practitioner and founder of Cookster Capital, translating hands-on expertise in mining, node operation, and protocol design into alternative-investment strategies aimed at long-term bitcoin accumulation. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with family life—opening Pokémon cards with his son and tinkering with home automation—reflecting a practical, systems-oriented mindset that informs both his engineering and investment approaches.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at Penn State UniversityBitcoin WhitepaperCenter for Creative LeadershipBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (88)
tuya10
python10
handlers10
esp3210
iot-application10
upnp10
tasmota10
hue10
smartthings10
lifx10
sensor10
floor10
iot10
zwave10
zigbee10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ericvitale/ST-Z-Wave-Shade
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
ericvitale/ST-Toggle-Me
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 9 months
smartappsmartthingslightsdimmersswitches
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