Eric Bloch is a software engineering professional with diverse experience in web applications, electronic-discovery, digital media, computer graphics, user interfaces, anti-malware/security, open-source software, parallel, multi-threaded programming, and distributed computing environments. He has a passion for shipping products and building software that makes people say "Wow!" His deep understanding of software development practice, strategic decision making, and management of happy teams building meaningful products makes him stand out as a leader. Eric has worked in both start-up and large company, consumer and enterprise environments. He has hired, managed, directed, and mentored software engineers and managers through all phases of software development. Eric studied Sc. B., Computer Science and Math at Brown University and AM, Sociology at Stanford University, and MS, Computer Science at Stanford University. Eric is currently VP of Engineering at Udemy and has worked previously as Sr. Director of Engineering at Udemy, Director of Engineering at Udemy, Director, Engineering at Hightail, Director of Engineering at Clearwell Systems, Inc. (acquired by Symantec for $410M), Director, Engineering at IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco for $800M), Director of Engineering at Laszlo Systems, Inc., Senior Software Engineer at Incremental Images, Tech. Lead/Tech. Staff at Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation. Eric is a proponent of open-source advocacy, community building, and contribution.