Andrew Erickson
Site Reliability Engineer at EAJ Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Erickson is a Site Reliability Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating reliable systems across startups and large tech firms. He blends deep Unix/Mac systems knowledge, release engineering and configuration management with a software developer’s attention to code quality—evident from contributions to open-source projects like a popular Slack RTM bot where he improved robustness and JSON error handling. His career spans roles at Mozilla, Pinterest, Twitter and Google, plus founding a consultancy and a short-lived startup, giving him both operational rigor and entrepreneurial perspective. Andrew pairs systems administration and web development roots with modern SRE practices to improve deployment reliability and developer workflows. Collected experience across release engineering and backend work means he often bridges the gap between developer intent and production stability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science and Film Studies, BA, Computer Science and Film Studies at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (12)
json10
slack-api10
python10
debugging9
homebrew6
twitter-bootstrap6
jira6
continuous-integration6
adb6
circleci6
soap6
ruby6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
slack-samples/python-rtmbot
May 2017 - May 2017
A framework for receiving and interacting with events from Slack's RTM API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the RTM bot by adding features and resolving issues related to Slack interactions. Their contributions included handling group messaging, improving exception handling for JSON parsing, and preventing potential index errors. They also addressed linting issues and fixed minor errors, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
slack
aerickson/bbtq
Aug 2019 - Dec 2023
Barebones TOML query. Like jq, but for TOML instead of JSON.
Contributions:1 release, 45 PRs, 170 pushes in 4 years 4 months
jqtoml
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