Rick Ehrhart
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRick 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
Github Skills (14)
docker-container7
vulnerability7
powershell7
cron-expression7
management6
rest-api6
benchmarking6
python6
rest6
security5
ruby5
automation5
ionic2
angular1
Programming languages (5)
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
automationpowershell
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