Résumé ====== | Eric Holscher | eric@ericholscher.com | Portland, Oregon | https://github.com/ericholscher Interests --------- * Documentation * Django & Python * Devops Open Source Projects -------------------- * Read the Docs - http://readthedocs.org * Role: Primary maintainer since 2010 * Over 100,000 projects & 20 million page views/month (see `our yearly stats post `_ for latest data) * Standard documentation hosting for Python community * Write the Docs Conferences - http://www.writethedocs.org/ * Role: Co-founder and primary organizer of Portland conference * 3 global conferences, Slack network with 8,000+ members, newsletter with 8,000+ subscribers, meetups on 4 continents * See latest stats on `our yearly blog post `_ * Python Software Foundation - https://www.python.org/psf-landing/ * Role: Board member from 2017-2020. Chair of Funding Working Group * Work to expand funding access and success of Python infrastructure globally Work Experience ---------------- August 2010-Current ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read the Docs ````````````` * See `above <#open-source-projects>`_ for primary roles and impact * It has been my "day job" since 2014. 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 Speaking --------- Spoken at the following conferences on Read the Docs, IRC bots, Testing, and Documentation: * Keynote - Pycon Colombia 2017 * Keynote - PyCaribbean 2016 * Djangocon US 2015, 2011, 2010 * Open Source & Feelings 2015 * Keynote - Pycon Malaysia 2014 * Pycon Phillipines 2014 * Mulitple meetups across Taiwan in 2014 * Open Source Bridge 2012, 2011 * Pycon Web Summit 2012 * OSCON 2011 * Djangocon EU 2010, 2009 More information available on my website: https://www.ericholscher.com/speaking/ Education --------- University of Mary Washington ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bachelor of Science in Computer Science ``````````````````````````````````````` * Graduated May 2008 * Major GPA of 3.5