Eric Woodruff
Software Engineer
Medical Lake, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Woodruff is a Principal Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience building large-scale, cross-platform systems and distributed services, currently focused on video encoding and streaming at AWS Elemental. He combines deep language expertise in C++, advanced Java/JNI, and Android with hands-on systems work spanning networking, storage, and virtualization to deliver high-availability, production-grade products. Eric has led service launches (including AWS Elemental MediaLive), pioneered Docker-based encoding solutions, and driven migrations and automation that reduced operational friction across teams. His background includes founding a mobile startup, extensive storage and NAS engineering at NetApp and HP, and mentoring others in Agile and test-driven practices. An accomplished technical writer and open-source contributor, he also maintains documentation for the popular Sandcastle Help File Builder project, highlighting a pragmatic emphasis on developer experience. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he blends systems-level design with user-centered tooling to turn complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, maintainable software.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
documentation10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
EWSoftware/SHFB
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB). A standalone GUI, Visual Studio integration package, and MSBuild tasks providing full configuration and extensibility for building help files with the Sandcastle tools.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:40 releases, 199 commits, 101 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Sandcastle Help File Builder project. Their contributions involved moving content, reorganizing documentation sections, and updating examples. They also made corrections to existing documentation and provided clarifications for various elements used in the project, such as adding links to MAML and XML comments guidelines.
extensibilitymsbuild-taskvisual-studio
EWSoftware/WebCodeProviders
Mar 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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