Eric Blackburn
Staff Software Engineer - DevOps Platforms
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEric Blackburn is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building DevOps platforms and production-ready automation at Indeed, specializing in pragmatic SDLC-driven delivery that balances stakeholder ROI, maintainability, and productivity. He brings deep expertise in continuous delivery, test automation, and platform engineering—having led the design and implementation of BDD-driven test infrastructures that enabled non-developers to author and execute scenarios across parallel browser environments. At Indeed he progressed from Senior to Staff within platform engineering, and his open-source contributions include migrating JS UIs to TypeScript for a real-time Kubernetes dashboard, demonstrating a front-end fluency that complements his backend and infrastructure work. Eric’s background in software design and academic research in aspect-oriented modeling gives him a habit of thinking about modularity and cross-cutting concerns early in architecture. Based in North Carolina, he pairs mentorship experience with hands-on coding to reduce coupling and increase system cohesion. Colleagues value him for turning complex requirements into auditable, stakeholder-focused solutions that reliably ship.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Computer Science with Software Engineering Major, M.S Computer Science with Software Engineering Major at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (12)
component-development10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
jsx10
typescript-types10
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
accessibility6
text-to-speech6
sapi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skooner-k8s/skooner
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Simple Kubernetes real-time dashboard and management.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 10 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to converting existing JavaScript UI components to TypeScript (JSX). This included refactoring components like `field`, `inputFilter`, `doc`, `donut`, and `eventsPanel`. These changes involved type definition, refactoring for TypeScript compatibility, and component updates to support various UI elements. The user also made enhancements to the `donut` component, including changes to its unmount functionality.
kubernetes-dashboardmulti-clusterdockerkubernetesdashboard
ericblackburn/argo-cd
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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