Résumé
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| Eric Holscher
| eric@ericholscher.com
| Portland, Oregon
| https://github.com/ericholscher
Interests
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* Documentation
* Django & Python
* Devops
Open Source Projects
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* 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
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August 2010-Current
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Read the Docs
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* See `above <#open-source-projects>`_ for primary roles and impact
* It has been my "day job" since 2014.
January 2013 - July 2013
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Pacific Crest Trail
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* 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
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Urban Airship - Developer & Operations
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* 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
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Lawrence Journal-World - Developer
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* The birthplace of Django, maintaining the world's oldest Django codebase
* Worked as Lead developer and defacto sysadmin for the "Internal" team
Speaking
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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
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University of Mary Washington
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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
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* Graduated May 2008
* Major GPA of 3.5