Hi! I’m Erik

I’m a software engineer, computer scientist, and educator.

My Professional Life

By day, I am a Sr. Software Engineer at CallRail where I have worked on a variety of projects from brand-new features, to large scale refactoring efforts, to developer tooling. I am currently working on the company’s platform/SRE team.

My Science and Research Activities

Outside of work, I am a computer science researcher and am currently pursuing my PhD at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. My research is mostly on computational methods in RNA biology. I am also active as a reviewer and contributor for pyOpenSci and the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS).

My Commitment to CS Education

I teach undergraduate courses and have served two terms as Educational Activities Board Chair for my local IEEE section. Occasionally, I will speak at local meetups. I enjoy writing tutorials and blog posts and have publications on several 3rd party websites along with my own blog.

Contact Info

You can contact me by emailing ewhiting@ieee.org

My Specific Skills

    I have worked on huge range of projects and technologies, but let’s be specific.

    The technologies I can start working with right away:

    • Ruby on Rails
    • Python
    • C#
    • Java
    • SQL
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • TypeScript
    • AngularJS

    The kinds of projects in which I’d need little ramp-up time:

    • Full-stack web development
    • Data engineering
    • ML/DL model benchmarking
    • API design
    • Database development and tuning
    • Software testing (unit, integration, UI, and performance)
    • Microservices migrations