Eric Socolofsky
Sustainability Engineering Manager at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Socolofsky is a Sustainability Engineering Manager and seasoned visualization technologist with 17 years of experience building data-driven web and interactive experiences. He blends an architectural foundation and new-media training (NYU-ITP) with deep front-end and UX craft, having shipped exhibits at the Exploratorium, maps at Stamen, and visualization work at Flickr and Uber. At Uber he now leads engineering for sustainability products that scale globally to accelerate EV adoption and reduce emissions, applying practical product engineering to climate goals. His open-source contributions include front-end improvements to visgl/deck.gl, showing attention to compatibility, UX, and social integration in visualization tooling. Known for translating complex data into engaging, tangible experiences, he thrives at the intersection of design, code, and public impact.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, New Media / Interaction Design, MPS, New Media / Interaction Design at New York UniversityBA, Architecture, BA, Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis
English
Github Skills (12)
webgl10
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
webpacker10
react10
webpack10
geospatial-analysis9
maps9
css8
html8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
visgl/deck.gl
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
WebGL2 powered visualization framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 52 PRs, 118 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `deck.gl` visualization framework. Their work included adding on-screen warnings for missing Mapbox tokens and enabling the `ScatterplotLayer` by default. They also addressed compatibility issues, removing destructuring from examples webpack configs to support older Node.js versions. Further, the user implemented updates to support drag events and integrated social media unfurls via OpenGraph and Twitter card tags, showing a focus on user experience and social media integration.
visualizationwebgldata-visualizationjavascriptpython
stamen/open-redistricting
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
A collaborative, open legislative redistricting tool, built atop GitHub.
Contributions:175 commits, 4 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 years 1 month
redistrictingelectionmapatoplegislature
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