Résumé

Eric Holscher
757 705 0532
Portland, Oregon

Interests

  • Django & Python
  • Documentation
  • Devops
  • Scaling systems

Open Source Projects

  • Read the Docs - http://readthedocs.org

    • Over 5000 projects
    • Over 5 million page views a month
    • Standard hosting for Python community
  • Member of the Python Software Foundation

Conferences

  • Helped organize the Write the Docs conference - http://conf.writethedocs.org

    • 200+ people came to talk about documentation
    • Portland, Oregon on April 8-9 2013
    • Has spawned local users groups in multiple cities

Speaking

Spoken at the following conferences on Read the Docs, IRC bots, Testing, and Documentation:

  • Open Source Bridge 2012, 2011
  • Pyweb Summit 2012
  • Djangocon US 2011, 2010
  • OSCON 2011
  • Djangocon EU 2010, 2009

More information available on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/profile/ericholscher/past/speaking/

Work Experience

January 2013 - July 2013

Pacific Crest Trail

  • Trained for 3 months by hiking 50 miles a week
  • Hiked 800 miles of the trail before getting injured
  • Lived in the woods for 2 months
  • Gave my mind and soul room to breathe

December 2010 - January 2013

Urban Airship - Developer & Operations

  • Employee 15 at a startup that now has over 150 people
  • Assisted moving data centers on the ops team
  • Helped scale infrastructure to handle hundreds of millions of messages a day

July 2008 - December 2010

Lawrence Journal-World - Developer

  • The birthplace of Django, maintaining the world’s oldest Django codebase

  • Worked as Lead developer and defacto sysadmin for the “Internal” team

    • Ljworld.com, Lawrence.com, Kusports.com and ~20 other sites
  • Worked on the “Commerical” team on Ellington

    • Ported Ellington from Django r1290 to 1.0
    • Wrote lots of tests and supported the product

March 2006 - May 2008

(Hiatus July 2006-January 2007 while in Australia)

CACI - Developer

  • Full Life-cycle development of a Portal-type website for the U.S. Navy
  • Wrote a javascript validation library, allowing you to add rules in one line, and saving developers from writing custom javascript for each page
  • Used Prototype and Scriptaculous Javascript libraries for AJAX and other development

Education

University of Mary Washington

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

  • Graduated May 2008
  • Major GPA of 3.5