Eric Edgar
Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at SmartThings
Elk River, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Edgar is a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale, real-time cloud platforms, currently leading infrastructure work at SmartThings. He’s skilled in AWS automation, monitoring, and deployments, and has progressed from hands-on Unix administration through senior DevOps and SaaS roles to cloud infrastructure leadership. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved StackStorm’s Paramiko SSH runner to better handle SSH proxy configs and prevent zombie proxy processes—demonstrating attention to robustness in complex network environments. Based in Elk River, Minnesota, Eric combines aerospace-trained analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering practice to deliver on-time, under-budget infrastructure projects.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (11)
paramiko10
automation10
automations10
devops10
python10
ssh10
testing9
cicd8
workflow-automation7
argo-workflows7
workflow-engine7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to improving the Paramiko SSH runner within the StackStorm project, focusing on resolving issues related to proxy command usage with SSH configurations. They added support for using the `~/.ssh/config` file, implemented socket closing for the proxy commands to prevent zombie processes, and added tests to validate the socket closing functionality. These changes enhanced the SSH runner's capabilities and robustness, particularly in environments utilizing SSH proxy configurations.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
eedgar/cstar
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
Apache Cassandra cluster orchestration tool for the command line
Contributions:15 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 10 months
cassandraorchestrationapachecloudcassandra-cluster
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