Eric Hammond
Internet Startup Technologist
Eric Hammond builds, maintains, and supports a series of popular images for running Ubuntu and Debian on Amazon EC2. Having started with AWS development in 2007, Eric provides support for AWS/EC2 and Ubuntu and has assisted Canonical in the development of the official Ubuntu images for EC2.
Eric has been involved in the technical architecture, development, and leadership of a number of early stage startups including Citysearch.com, Stamps.com, Rent.com, ThisNext.com, and CampusExplorer.com.
The CampusExplorer.com business runs entirely on AWS/EC2 with Ubuntu, MySQL, Perl, Apache, and numerous other open source technologies.