Eric Volpert
Senior Software Engineer at A Social Protocol Company
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Volpert is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and developer-facing platforms across startups and large tech firms. Now based in the SF Bay Area, he architects federated social protocols and contributes front-end UX improvements to notable open-source projects like Bluesky Social, while previously building infrastructure at CrowdStrike, Bloomberg, Facebook, Planet, and VADE. He blends backend systems work in Go and Python with TypeScript front-end craft, shipping observability, AuthZ, and image-processing pipelines for IoT and cloud-native deployments. As a technical lead he has standardized developer experience practices, reduced operational load through code-gen and tooling, and driven multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms. A photographer and musician as well as an engineer, he brings a multidisciplinary, product-minded perspective to complex technical problems. Notably, his contributions to theme customization and navigation improvements on Bluesky demonstrate attention to UX details even when focused on distributed protocol engineering.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of ChicagoComputer Science, Computer Science at The American School in London
English, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
customizer10
typescript10
user-interface10
custom-theme10
typescripts10
customisation10
react10
typescript-types10
android-development9
react-native9
mobile-development9
android9
mobile9
ios9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bluesky-social/social-app
May 2023 - Jan 2025
The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Bluesky Social application, specifically by implementing and refining the theme customization features. They introduced a system-default color mode, allowing users to override it, and later upgraded the appearance settings with a three-state radio button. Their work includes significant changes to the desktop right navigation and drawer components, modifying the overall layout and appearance settings within the settings page. This work demonstrates a commitment to improving the user experience.
ericvolp12/atproto.tools
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
A looking glass for the AT Proto Firehose
Contributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 6 PRs in 10 months
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