Eric Haase
Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEric Haase is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backend platforms, currently leading API and platform efforts at WP Engine from Austin, Texas. He specializes in Go and Python, Kubernetes, gRPC/Protobuf and Google Cloud, and has architected internal Platform APIs and a Kubernetes-based hosting platform that runs 100+ services. His work blends hands-on engineering and team leadership—driving GitOps, Istio service mesh, and DevOps practices that earned a Google Cloud DevOps Award recognition. He also prototypes AI solutions, winning an internal hackathon with a RAG-based Slackbot backed by Vertex and vector stores. Previously he contributed deep systems and tooling expertise at IBM across C, Perl and shell-based infrastructure, giving him a rare full-stack operational perspective from firmware-level services to high-scale APIs. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed requirements into pragmatic, production-ready platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (32)
terraform9
google9
k8s9
kubernetes8
charts7
rd6
helm6
rollbar6
resque6
sinatra5
rack-middleware5
error-reporting5
exceptions4
docker-image4
rails4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erichaase/exercism
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
erichaase/topcoder-python
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 32 pushes in 1 month
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