Robert Eanes
Co-Founder & CTO at Scaffold
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Eanes is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience building and scaling product-driven engineering teams, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Scaffold in Austin. He founded and led Pingboard for a decade, moving between hands-on architecture and product leadership roles (most recently VP Product at Workleap) and bringing rare operator-level experience to early-stage startups. A pragmatic backend engineer by training, he contributes to open source—most notably improvements to a Python Elasticsearch client—demonstrating attention to API ergonomics and operational tooling. Trained at Carnegie Mellon in Information and Decision Systems, he combines systems thinking with product sensibility and a bias for learning and building practical solutions that ship.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information and Decision Systems, BS Information and Decision Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (13)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
python10
apidoc10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pyelasticsearch/pyelasticsearch
Feb 2010 - Aug 2012
python elasticsearch client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the development of a Python client for Elasticsearch, enhancing its functionality and usability. Their work involved fixing tests, adding features such as support for terms and more-like-this API calls, and implementing index admin API functionality. They also focused on improving the code by switching to underscore separators and correcting the argument name.
elasticsearch-clientpython
rhec/slack-ruby-gem
Mar 2015 - Oct 2023
A Ruby wrapper for the Slack API
Contributions:5 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 8 months
ruby-wrapperapirubyslackslack-api
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