Eric White
Software Engineer at Docugami
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric White is a veteran .NET developer and technical writer with 12+ years focused on Open XML, Office client and SharePoint development, and a longer history in systems programming. He combines deep C#/.NET back-end expertise with front-end skills in JavaScript, HTML/CSS and document transformation technologies (XSLT, XSD), and has contributed significant enhancements to high-profile open-source projects like Microsoft's Open-XML-SDK and the OfficeDev Open-Xml-PowerTools. A prolific educator, he has authored books and articles, produced over 200 screencasts, and maintains an extensive blog and video library that documents practical patterns for working with Office documents. Currently at Docugami, he brings both production engineering experience and a strong habit of turning obscure Office XML behaviors into reliable, automatable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
dotnet-core10
docx10
csharp10
document-processing10
netframework10
build-automation9
xaml9
xml9
powershell9
compression9
html6
wordprocessingml6
markdown6
openxml-sdk6
openxml6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/Open-Xml-PowerTools
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:125 commits, 65 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Open-XML-PowerTools library, particularly concerning the DocumentAssembler and WmlToXml modules. They introduced features to improve document assembly, including support for metadata within content controls and the handling of multi-line content. Furthermore, they refined the library's ability to generate more accurate revisions and included methods for generating hyperlinks, as well as adding support for Office 2016.
dotnet/Open-XML-SDK
Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
Open XML SDK by Microsoft
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 13 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric's commits primarily involve initial source code drops and subsequent adjustments, indicating a role in setting up the foundational elements of the project. They made changes to the core framework components, including alternate content handling, and the auto-generated schemas. The user focused on fixing line endings and encoding issues across multiple files within the project. They also addressed build system configurations, including assembly versioning and PowerShell scripts.
xmldocxsdkpptxopen-xml-sdk
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