Eric Wendelin
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolEric Wendelin is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building developer tooling, observability, and automation for high-scale teams, currently shaping testing analytics at Netflix. He has led cross-functional engineering efforts at AWS and Gradle, delivering products that saved millions and improved build and test reliability for thousands of services. A long-time open-source contributor and creator of stacktrace.js, he brings deep expertise in build systems (Gradle, Bazel), CI/test automation, and front- and back-end tooling. His work blends product thinking with low-level engineering—improving test filtering, build profilers, and gzip streaming in widely used projects. Based in Phoenix, he’s equally comfortable shipping CLIs, APIs, and UIs as he is tuning build performance or integrating new test runners. Pragmatic and community-oriented, he often pairs documentation and developer experience improvements with technical contributions to maximize adoption.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Math and Computer Science, BS Math and Computer Science at Adams State University
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Github Skills (57)
asynchronous10
kotlin10
gzip10
javascript10
csslint10
async10
testing10
formatting10
css10
bash10
bash-completion10
regex10
text-formatting10
forms10
cicd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle-completion
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
Gradle tab completion for bash and zsh
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:5 releases, 126 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on improving the Gradle completion scripts for bash and zsh. Their contributions involved adding support for various Gradle CLI options, improving completion performance through caching strategies, and fixing issues related to subproject task completion and project directory detection. The user also addressed edge cases and added features such as file and directory completion for specific options, making the completion experience more user-friendly and robust. They also added support for new Gradle flags.
gradlezsh-completionbash-completionbashtab-completion
stacktracejs/stacktrace.js
Jan 2010 - Jun 2022
Generate, parse, and enhance JavaScript stack traces in all web browsers
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 274 commits, 15 PRs in 12 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on updating and maintaining the test suite for the JavaScript stacktrace library. Their work involved adding new test cases, incorporating updated testing frameworks (QUnit, Jasmine), and adjusting tests to accommodate changes in the project's dependencies. The user also modified the testing setup to integrate with external test result services like BrowserScope and the inclusion of support for PhantomJS as a test runner.
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