Eric Woodruff
Principal Software Engineer at AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEric 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
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
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Github Skills (5)
documentation10
technical-writing10
xml-documentation6
embeddedresource6
sandcastle6
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:39 releases, 199 commits, 98 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.
dotnetmsbuildguibuilderstandalone
EWSoftware/latex-sandcastle
Aug 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 pushes in 9 years 8 months
parselatexbuilder
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