Eric Berry
Business Owner at Berry Development
Saratoga Springs, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Berry is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 17 years building and scaling revenue-generating web applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails. He founded CodeFund, an ethical ad platform that reached $90k MRR and generated over $670k for open source projects, and has a track record of high-margin exits. As a hands-on technical leader he has led product and architecture work across startups and mid-stage companies—improving query performance by 30%, untangling tech debt, and shipping rich UIs with Hotwire, Stimulus, Ember, and React. He’s also an active open-source contributor, improving frontend UX for projects like the Ember website and contributing backend fixes to Grails and Gitcoin. Based in Saratoga Springs, Utah, he now runs Berry Development, helping companies harness AI and data to drive actionable growth. Colleagues describe him as a reliable "jack of all trades" who pairs rapid prototyping with a pragmatic focus on business outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Alta High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
web-application10
handlebars10
grails10
groovy10
css10
open-source10
emberjs10
webapp10
spock10
html10
web-development10
boa10
testing9
authentication9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/website
May 2013 - May 2014
Source for emberjs.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Ember.js website. Their contributions include adding edit buttons to API and guide pages, integrating the edit icon, and fixing header styles. They also integrated and organized cookbook recipes, and integrated Handlebars. The user also addressed minor styling issues to improve the overall UI.
emberjsember-addonemberjavascript-frameworkjavascript
grails-samples/grails-website
Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
Grails Web Site
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:60 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on the Grails backend of the project, specifically dealing with data source configuration, unit tests, and Maven repository configurations. They fixed existing tests and added support for a plugin with a snapshot version and implemented features around user authentication, profiles, and password management with a new Gravatar taglib and form updates. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of Grails and associated technologies.
grails
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