Erik Hetzner
Senior Software Engineer at Biohub
United States
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Top SchoolErik Hetzner is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience building and modernizing large, content-rich web platforms for research and publishing. He combines hands-on development across Java/Spring, Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, Scala and cloud services with technical leadership—guiding teams, conducting code reviews, and partnering with non-technical stakeholders to turn domain needs into pragmatic solutions. At PLOS he led performance, search, and storage overhauls—cutting search latency 10x, halving backend transaction times via HTTP caching, and migrating multi-terabyte corpora to Google Cloud Storage. He has deep expertise in search technologies (Lucene/Solr) and web archiving systems, having led the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service and contributed to OpenWayback stewardship. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product, SRE, and engineering, he favors simplifying complex systems to improve reliability and performance. With a BA in History from UC Berkeley, he brings a researcher’s attention to detail and a long track record of shipping durable, maintainable systems.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA History, Bachelor of Arts - BA History at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
bank10
double10
command-line-tool10
wkhtmltopdf10
client-library10
ledger10
elisp10
organize10
json10
unify10
xml-schema10
accounting10
language-server-protocol10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
egh/zotero
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 11 months
collectorganizetool-usesharezotero
egh/wanderlust
Aug 2010 - Sep 2015
Unofficial Wanderlust Development Repository. For info see
Contributions:28 commits, 17 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 1 month
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