Eric Schank
Head Of Engineering, DroneSense By Versaterm
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Schank is a seasoned software executive and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building scalable products from embedded systems to cloud-native web applications, currently heading engineering for DroneSense by Versaterm in Austin. He blends hands-on architecture and coding experience—spanning Swift/iOS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and C++—with product and people leadership, having led teams of 26+ and managed hundreds of releases. An entrepreneur and founder, he has broken large monoliths into microservices, shipped safety-critical drone software for first responders, and built analytics and eCommerce platforms. Eric is also an active open-source contributor to Ember.js and related projects, improving core helpers and documentation in one of the major front-end frameworks. He’s comfortable bridging deep systems work (security, monitoring, avionics-adjacent systems) with delightful, simple user experiences for real-world problems. Based in Austin, he pairs technical breadth with mentorship and a track record of turning complex requirements into production-ready, mission-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology
Github Skills (4)
ember10
javascript10
emberjs10
documentation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/ember.js
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 16 PRs, 24 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the Ember.js framework by addressing deprecation warnings and improving the documentation. They updated the codebase to include required options for `Ember.deprecate` and fixed formatting issues. The user also added documentation for the `{{outlet}}`, `{{mut}}`, `{{input}}` helpers, and `current-when` argument, enhancing the user experience and clarifying the framework's usage. Furthermore, the user cleaned up the codebase by removing outdated comments and a function.
emberjsjavascript-frameworkemberjavascript
EricSchank/ember.js
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:43 pushes, 17 branches in 1 month
web-applicationsjavascript-frameworkjavascriptemberember-js
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