Cliff Erson
Cloud Engineer at Trader Joe's
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorCliff Erson is a Cloud Engineer with over two decades of systems experience and 14 years focused on modern cloud and automation platforms, delivering reliable infrastructure for clients from gaming giants to healthcare and government. He builds and operates large-scale, highly available systems—having managed the world’s largest Ejabberd chat deployment and helped reduce League of Legends deployment windows in China from days to hours through automation. Cliff excels at creating reproducible build pipelines, orchestrating migrations off legacy Unix stacks, and embedding with partner teams to meet complex compliance and operational requirements. His background spans hands-on recovery and backup leadership at IBM to building corporate-wide IDS and log-retention systems at Disney, reflecting deep operational rigor. Customer-focused and metrics-driven, he prioritizes tooling that minimizes downtime and standardizes repeatable outcomes. Based in Las Vegas, he combines old-school systems knowledge with modern cloud-native practices to tame complexity in high-stakes production environments.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
librarian7
cookbook4
cloudera4
homebrew3
ruby3
hive2
dns2
bundler2
macos2
hadoop2
recipe2
knife1
cli1
bash1
script1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
clifferson/workstation-cookbook
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:38 pushes in 2 years
clifferson/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
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