Early Ehlinger
Principal Engineer at Cerby
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolEarly Ehlinger is a seasoned software architect and principal engineer with a track record of leading high-performing teams across fintech, platform engineering, and developer tools. Based in Lake Charles, LA, he blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture, consistently delivering scalable systems while mentoring peers. Currently Principal Engineer at Cerby, he guides architectural vision and execution in fast-paced environments; prior to Cerby he led teams at Earnest as Software Engineering Manager and built robust platform capabilities. His career spans startups and enterprise, including a stint as Chief Code Monkey at thenewentity.com and leadership roles at Clear Capital, Keen IO, and Compaq, reflecting deep fluency across languages and stacks from C/C++ to Java, Python, and cloud-native technologies. He has a history of driving open-ended projects—from cloud infrastructure migrations to building a 3D render farm early in his career—showcasing his entrepreneurial and hands-on engineering instincts. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Alabama, pairing academic grounding with a relentless curiosity to learn from and teach others.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Alabama
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Github Skills (107)
cassandra10
priority-queue9
rest9
golang9
api9
database9
programming-language9
sling9
jetty9
jax-rs9
jenkins9
scripting9
kue9
java9
osgi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
earlye/oss-java-helpers
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:7 PRs, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
earlye/makemkv-oss
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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