Eric Billingsley
Chief Technology Officer at TrustScale
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Billingsley is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with a decade of executive experience and a career history of scaling infrastructure at Google, Apple, eBay and AltaVista during periods of explosive growth. He combines hands-on systems engineering—evidenced by recent back-end and DevOps contributions to the popular Concourse CI project—with strategic leadership across datacenter design, search technology, and green computing. Known for building multidisciplinary, self-motivated teams, he has led everything from search engine architecture (Voyager) to global production fleet management and innovative datacenter efficiency programs. Eric’s background uniquely blends nuclear engineering rigor with internet-scale software and operations, enabling pragmatic decisions that balance performance, cost, and sustainability. Based in Los Gatos, he now leads TrustScale while serving on the board of e2f, bringing deep operational chops and a track record of reducing platform costs and improving resiliency.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS (incomplete) Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear), MS (incomplete) Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (11)
container10
go10
postgresql10
cicd10
concourse10
database-management9
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
docker8
dockers8
runc7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/concourse
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to improving the database connection pool and garbage collection mechanisms within the Concourse system. They focused on setting connection limits, adjusting idle connection settings, and implementing a grace period for failed containers. The user also addressed a typo in a flag description and added a timeout to the hijacking feature. The commits indicate a strong understanding of Go and database interactions within a container-based CI/CD system.
golangcontainersdoergocdelm
calculi-io/guide-rails-demo-javarest-java-spring
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Learn how to get started with Guide-Rails full CI/CD pipelines using this sample Java application.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years
java-applicationguide-railsget-startedrailsruby
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