Rick Ehrhart
Owner at Trebax
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Ehrhart is a seasoned developer advocate and founder with 11+ years in developer evangelism and over four decades of software engineering experience spanning embedded systems, storage, and API ecosystems. As owner of Trebax and former developer evangelist roles at Cisco, Ionic Security, Tintri, and NetApp, he specializes in making SDKs and APIs approachable by producing code samples, automating documentation, and building developer portals. Rick combines deep systems-level engineering (from HP and NetApp-era storage and device drivers to modern cloud APIs) with a knack for developer experience and automation integration for storage appliances. He’s shipped SDKs, CLI tools, Python and PowerShell examples, and automated API doc pipelines—often bridging engineering and product teams to improve API usability. Based in San Jose, he enjoys helping teams implement products efficiently and has a long track record of turning complex storage and security capabilities into practical developer workflows. An early adopter of automation in documentation, he often automates repetitive developer tasks behind the scenes to accelerate adoption.
11 years of coding experience
48 years of employment as a software developer
Servite High SchoolBS Chemisty, BS Chemisty at University of California, RiversideUniversity of California Santa CruzObject Oriented Analysis Design, Object Oriented Analysis Design at University of California, Santa Cruz Extenstion
Github Skills (18)
api6
cron-expression5
powershell5
sdk5
rest5
expressions5
python5
strings5
automation4
human-readable4
rest-api4
readable4
cron3
security2
ruby2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Tintri/tintri-api-examples
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years
Tintri/tintri-powershell-examples
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Examples of using the Tintri Automation Toolkit for PowerShell.
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 19 pushes in 2 years 6 months
powershellautomation
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