Eric Larson is a web application developer and library technologist with more than 18 years of experience building open-source, metadata-driven discovery systems. He is a core contributor and release manager for GeoBlacklight and has spent the past seven years as Lead Developer for the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, a collaborative geospatial discovery initiative serving 18 universities.

He is also co-founder of Gimlet, a service analytics platform used by more than 800 libraries worldwide. His work spans geospatial discovery, APIs, repository platforms, search architecture, metadata workflows, and sustainable open-source development, with technical expertise in Python, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, FastAPI, Solr, and Elasticsearch.

He holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and brings a librarian’s commitment to access, stewardship, usability, collaboration, and long-term sustainability to every project.