Eric Greer is a Principal Cloud Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient, production-grade cloud infrastructure, currently leading cloud engineering at Epic Games from Gig Harbor, WA. He blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to kOps, kuberhealthy, and CodeIgniter-Redis—with practical skills in Kubernetes, Go, and etcd resource tuning. Eric focuses on reliability and efficiency, having fixed subtle Redis buffering bugs and improved operator Helm charts and Prometheus integration. Colleagues describe him as someone who avoids overengineering—he jokes that when problems aren't big, he starts fixing things that don't need fixing—bringing a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to large-scale systems.
A Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks as pods. Works great with Prometheus!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 releases, 223 reviews, 1153 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on updating and maintaining the codebase. These commits involved modifying files related to the Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks. The changes included updating copyright information, contributing guidelines, and enhancements to the Helm chart for Prometheus integration. The user demonstrated skills in Go programming and working with Kubernetes-related technologies.
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 36 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the configuration and management of Kubernetes resources within the kOps project. Their work included specifying memory and CPU requests for etcd containers and modifying related configuration files to ensure proper resource allocation. Further, the user addressed merge conflicts and improved documentation regarding Docker configuration secrets, demonstrating involvement in both backend (etcd configuration) and operational aspects of the project.
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Eric Greer - Principal Cloud Engineer at Epic Games