Summary
Eddie Ballisty is a Lead DevOps Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience designing scalable, repeatable cloud platforms and modernizing legacy systems. Now at Apple after leading technology efforts as CTO and Director of Technology at Blueriver, he blends hands-on infrastructure engineering with product-minded leadership to drive reliable, cost-effective solutions. AWS-certified and relentless about elegant, long-lived designs, Eddie focuses on automation and repeatability to eliminate recurring operational pain. He has deep experience partnering across product, engineering, and business teams to translate complex requirements into production-ready architectures. Notably, his career progression from web developer to senior solutions architect and executive gives him rare empathy for both code-level tradeoffs and strategic technical decisions. Based in the Bay Area, he’s driven by a belief that persistence and thoughtful engineering can solve virtually any problem.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento