Eric Haberkorn is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems, currently driving infrastructure work at HashiCorp from Redmond. He brings deep distributed-systems expertise demonstrated by contributions to the widely used open-source project Consul, where he enhanced service configuration, xDS handling, and locality-aware routing for failover and peering. Prior roles at CircleCI and Benbria show a track record of scaling CI/CD and production services, while his math and economics background informs pragmatic, data-driven design decisions. Known for thoughtful refactors and enabling serverless plugin capabilities, he blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership to improve reliability in complex, multi-datacenter environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Economics at University of Iowa
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:340 reviews, 99 commits, 196 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to backend development within the Consul project, specifically focusing on enhancements to the service configuration handling and xDS configuration. They added metadata to service configuration responses, implemented the functionality to enable serverless plugin, and made code review changes. Furthermore, the user refactored the discovery chain logic for failover policies and incorporated locality-aware routing and peering configurations.
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Eric Haberkorn - Staff Software Engineer at HashiCorp