Eric West
Internal Product And Support Engineer at Vero
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric West is an Internal Product and Support Engineer in Seattle with 14 years of backend development experience, specializing in Ruby and Elixir. He builds and supports internal applications at Vero while bringing practical Rails and data-processing experience from a prior role at Lonely Planet. Eric contributes to open source—most notably improving homesick’s tracking and manifest features—demonstrating attention to robustness, edge cases, and cross-version compatibility. His background in English gives him an unusual strength in clear technical communication and documentation. Comfortable working between support, product, and engineering, he excels at turning ambiguous problems into reliable, maintainable systems. Peers rely on him for thoughtful refactors that balance efficiency with long-term operability.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), English Language and Literature, General at Middle Tennessee State UniversityBachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Japanese
Github Skills (10)
file-management10
ruby10
version-control9
git9
rspec8
scripting7
pathname7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
technicalpickles/homesick
May 2013 - May 2013
Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on enhancing the `homesick` project's functionality, focusing on the "track" command. Their contributions included implementing nested file structure traversal, creating and managing `.manifest` files for tracking, and refactoring the code to improve efficiency. They also addressed edge cases and improved the globbing functionality for compatibility with Ruby 2.0.
home-directory
edubkendo/supermemo
Nov 2014 - Feb 2020
An Elixir implementation of the Supermemo 2 algorithm
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
elixir
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