# Eric Hare

> Software engineer and statistician. Core Langflow maintainer at IBM; creator of Verity and Aeroza. I build open tools for decisions people can inspect. PhD in Statistics and Computer Science from Iowa State University (2017). Based in Lake Stevens, WA.

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://erichare.me/): positioning, selected work, writing, and contact.
- [About](https://erichare.me/about): biography and career timeline.
- [Work](https://erichare.me/projects): open-source systems, product engineering, and research software.
- [Research](https://erichare.me/phd): forensic surface comparison, PhD methods, software, and publications.
- [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 of the visual framework for building AI agents. Repository: https://github.com/langflow-ai/langflow
- [Verity](https://erichare.me/projects/verity) — open forensic surface comparison through calibrated, transparent likelihood ratios. Repository: https://github.com/erichare/verity
- [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.
- [AI Workbench](https://erichare.me/projects/ai-workbench) — DataStax / open-source. Self-hosted product surface for building, inspecting, and operating retrieval-backed AI applications on DataStax Astra. Repository: https://github.com/datastax/ai-workbench
- [Aeroza](https://erichare.me/projects/aeroza) — open-source weather platform for real-time radar, geospatial queries, streaming APIs, signed webhooks, nowcasting, and forecast verification. Repository: https://github.com/erichare/aeroza
- [PhD research — bullet matching](https://erichare.me/phd) — PhD dissertation + CSAFE research on automated forensic bullet striation matching. R packages: bulletr, bulletxtrctr.
- [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.

## 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