Eric Youngson
Residential Superintendent at Sun Light & Power
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Youngson is a residential superintendent and hands-on energy professional based in Berkeley with 11 years of experience bridging field operations, solar electrification, and energy engineering. He has led teams at Sunrun and Sun Light & Power, founded and ran Succession Ecological Services, and previously held technical roles from energy analyst to engineer—bringing rare continuity from policy-facing analysis to rooftop installation. Eric also contributes to open-source back-end work, notably improving tweet ingestion and analysis in the WeVoteServer Django project, showing a knack for practical API integrations. Trained in Renewable Energy Engineering (Oregon Tech) with a liberal-arts background in English, mathematics, and computer science from Michigan State, he combines technical fluency with clear communication and entrepreneurial grit.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSREE, Renewable Energy Engineering, BSREE, Renewable Energy Engineering at Oregon Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA, Major: English Language and Literature Minor: Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Major: English Language and Literature Minor: Mathematics, Computer Science at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (16)
twitter10
api10
tweepy10
python10
back-end-development10
twitter-api10
django10
apidoc10
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
google-api-client6
unit-testing6
google-api-python-client6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wevote/WeVoteServer
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
We Vote's API application server written in Django/Python. Election data pulled from many sources, used by https://github.com/wevote/WebApp and https://github.com/wevote/WeVoteCordova and https://github.com/wevote/Campaigns.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 2 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the We Vote server's API by implementing features related to Twitter feed analysis and integration. Their work included adding placeholder classes for data models and controllers, along with connecting views to URLs. Key changes involved modifying controllers to retrieve and analyze tweets, storing the retrieved tweets in the database. These efforts involved using the Tweepy library for Twitter API interactions.
application-serverdjangopython
eayoungs/GeePal
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 commit, 148 PRs, 326 pushes in 1 day
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