Eric Bower
Staff Software Engineer at SmarterDx
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolEric Bower is a Staff Software Engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms, developer tools, and compliance-focused SaaS. He co-founded pico.sh, an SSH-powered hosting service with global regions and 200+ paid users, and currently shapes platform reliability and product at SmarterDx. Eric has led teams and shipped production systems across PaaS, security/compliance dashboards, and real-time consumer apps, including work that helped deploy 1k+ apps via CI/CD integrations. A steady open-source contributor, he’s improved core functionality and type safety in high-profile projects like redux-saga and enhanced user-management flows in Flask-User. Based in Ann Arbor with a neuroscience background, he blends systems thinking and developer ergonomics to simplify complex infrastructure. Notably, his work spans low-level type/CI improvements in libraries and hands-on product engineering for regulated industries.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Neuroscience, Bachelor's degree Neuroscience at Bowling Green State University
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
middleware10
redux-saga10
python10
user-authentication10
typescript10
authentication10
loops10
redux10
flask-ask10
effects10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
saga10
flask10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
redux-saga/redux-saga
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
An alternative side effect model for Redux apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 11 commits, 89 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the core functionality and type safety of the Redux Saga library. They focused on fixing bugs and improving the type definitions for the `cps` effect, ensuring it correctly handles various callback scenarios. Additionally, they updated the CI/CD configuration by incorporating the latest Node.js versions and refactoring internal test assertions. Furthermore, they were involved in enhancing the library's internal structure by adding `exports` fields to `package.json` manifests, facilitating improved module resolution.
reduxsagasmiddlewareredux-saga
lingthio/Flask-User
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Customizable User Authorization & User Management: Register, Confirm, Login, Change username/password, Forgot password and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric focused on enhancing the user authorization and management features of the `flask-user` repository. They implemented and modified settings, forms, and views related to user registration, login, and invitation functionalities. They added new features related to user invitation, including email integration and token generation for the registration process. The contributions also involved refactoring and modifying existing code related to email confirmations and user account management.
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