EJ Etherington
Vice President, Protocol Engineer at Galaxy
White Salmon, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEJ Etherington is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience and 7+ years managing high-performing infrastructure and SRE teams across startups and enterprise environments. Currently Vice President, Protocol Engineer at Galaxy, he has sequentially led platform and reliability organizations at Calendly, Stack Overflow, Datadog, and others, delivering scalable, cost-effective operations and streamlined workflows. EJ is known for cultivating collaborative, high-morale remote and hybrid teams while translating complex technical challenges into pragmatic, auditable solutions. His background spans principal engineering, CTO-level strategy, and deep operational expertise in cloud-native systems, making him comfortable toggling between technical execution and organizational strategy. Based in White Salmon, WA, he blends a practiced focus on efficiency with a penchant for transformative process improvements that reduce costs without sacrificing reliability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA/BS, BA/BS at The Evergreen State CollegeMS, MS at Oregon State University
Github Skills (186)
circleci10
operator10
continuous-testing10
charts10
validation10
kapacitor10
helm10
rbac10
kubernetes10
audit10
authorization10
package-manager10
docker10
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ejether/k8sh
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
FairwindsOps/kube-ip-purge
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Helpful pod for purging stale IP leases from Kubernetes Weave IPAM
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
ipsstaleleaseshelpfulweave
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