# Eric Hare

> Software Engineer at IBM on the Developer and Operator Experience (DOE) team — working on developer experience and enterprise agent tooling, including Astra DB and Langflow. Joined IBM in August 2025 via the DataStax acquisition. PhD in Statistics and Computer Science from Iowa State University (2017). Previously Software Engineer at DataStax, Senior Data Scientist at Daisi Technology, and Chief Data Scientist at Omni Analytics Group. Based in Lake Stevens, WA.

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://erichare.me/): overview, status, selected projects.
- [About](https://erichare.me/about): biography and career timeline.
- [Projects](https://erichare.me/projects): open-source work and research.
- [Publications](https://erichare.me/publications): peer-reviewed papers and preprints.
- [CV](https://erichare.me/cv): full curriculum vitae. Markdown source at https://github.com/erichare/erichare.github.io/blob/main/cv.md
- [Writing](https://erichare.me/blog): essays and field reports.
- [Now](https://erichare.me/now): what I am focused on at the moment.

## Flagship projects

- [Langflow](https://erichare.me/projects/langflow) — IBM / open-source. Core maintainer; 240+ merged PRs. The visual framework for building AI agents (147k+ GitHub stars). Repository: https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow
- [Astra DB Data API](https://erichare.me/projects/astra-data-api) — IBM / DataStax. Contributor to the HTTP/JSON data plane in front of Astra DB: Unstructured integration, portal ingestion backend, and the astrapy Python client.
- [Docling](https://erichare.me/projects/docling) — IBM's open-source document-parsing toolkit. Contributor, integrator into Langflow (PRs #9398, #12296, #12442) and the Astra DB ingestion path.
- [PhD research — bullet matching](https://erichare.me/phd) — PhD dissertation + CSAFE research on automated forensic bullet striation matching. R packages: bulletr, bulletxtrctr.
- [discreteRV](https://erichare.me/projects/discreterv) — R Journal paper (2015). Teaching package for discrete random variables.
- [intRo](https://erichare.me/projects/intro) — Shiny-based introductory-statistics teaching tool. JCGS paper.
- [Daisi](https://erichare.me/projects/daisi) — Serverless Python cloud functions for scientific computing (2021–2022).
- [Omni Analytics & OmniacsDAO](https://erichare.me/projects/omniacsdao) — Chief Data Scientist 2017–2021. Open-source Shiny and DeFi tooling.
- [CUGA](https://erichare.me/projects/cuga) — Occasional contributor to IBM Research's open-source generalist agent harness.

## Contact

- Personal email: ericrhare@gmail.com
- Work email: eric.hare@ibm.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/erichare
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-h-15280938/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EHAreY8AAAAJ

## Citation

If you need to cite this site, please use:
  Hare, E. (2026). Personal website. Retrieved from https://erichare.me