Summary
Eric Harris is a pragmatic engineering leader and Lead Architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience spanning systems administration, DevOps, SRE and five years managing software teams. He has modernized mission-critical applications for government clients, led cloud migrations, and currently guides architecture and delivery at Explore Digits after shaping engineering standards and career ladders at Bellese. Comfortable both in the weeds of Linux, Terraform, Chef and Jenkins and at the exec table, he builds high-trust teams that balance customer outcomes with operational rigor. Eric combines long-term infrastructure stewardship with a knack for maturing processes—establishing security scanning, on-call practices, and measurable delivery workflows. Based in Chandler, AZ, he pairs deep technical memory of legacy and cloud systems with empathetic one-on-one leadership that elevates engineers’ careers. A career thread you might not expect: he grew from desktop support and ISP operations into leading large-scale modernization programs, giving him rare end-to-end operational perspective.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems at Minot State University
English