Eric Ball
Release Engineer at The Linux Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Ball is a Release Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating DevOps and release pipelines from research labs to foundation-scale open-source projects. Based in San Francisco, he has driven release engineering at The Linux Foundation since 2018 after implementing CI/CD and security-focused tooling at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His background blends Python development, Jenkins/Puppet automation, virtualization (VirtualBox/VMware), and cross-platform hosting on RHEL and macOS nodes, reflecting a pragmatic approach to complex build and deployment problems. Eric has also worked as a DevOps consultant for public-sector and education organizations, bringing repeatable, auditable processes to teams with varied compliance needs. Notably, he helped develop STONIX and built its CI system, showing an uncommon mix of security tooling experience and release engineering practice. He combines systems-level understanding with a focus on reliably shipping software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoAssociate of Science (A.S.), Information Systems Security, Associate of Science (A.S.), Information Systems Security at Sacramento City College
Github Skills (149)
jenkins-plugin10
continuous-testing10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
cd10
4g10
cicd10
gocd10
tekton10
owner10
jenkins10
devops10
gitflow10
jenkins-pipeline10
5g9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
MightyNerdEric/edgex-go
May 2019 - Sep 2021
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
golangedgexmonorepo
MightyNerdEric/ci-management
Jul 2019 - Mar 2024
Control repo for Jenkins job and build minion definitions
Contributions:32 pushes, 52 branches in 4 years 9 months
jenkinsjenkins-plugingitflowtektongocd
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