Eric Dattore
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, FinOps Lead at Sumo Logic
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Dattore is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and FinOps lead with 13 years of experience driving cost-efficient, reliable cloud infrastructure and operational excellence. Based in Denver, he blends hands-on engineering—contributing to projects like Rocket’s database pooling in Rust—with organizational work: mentoring, onboarding, and rebuilding curricula as an adjunct faculty at Colorado School of Mines. He has led cross-cloud cost reductions and migrations at CircleCI and pioneered Kubernetes migrations and infrastructure modernization at Pivotal. Known for pairing pragmatic engineering with process improvements, he focuses on lowering COGS without sacrificing performance or reliability. His background in both research-grade data systems and production services gives him a rare perspective on discoverability, cost, and long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (12)
databases10
database-management10
web-framework10
rust10
backend10
mongodb10
back-end-development10
rocket10
data-integration10
sql-database10
mongodb-database10
tdi8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rwf2/Rocket
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
A web framework for Rust.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 168 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric implemented and enhanced database connection pooling support within the Rocket web framework's contribution library. This involved adding features for various databases, including MongoDB, and improving the codegen for database pools. They also addressed existing issues related to generics and implemented `DerefMut` for database pools, alongside adding integration tests for database connections. These changes increased the framework's flexibility and robustness in managing database connections.
rustframeworkrocketmodularweb-development
ELD/monkey-lang-go
Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 22 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 6 months
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