Eric Hole
VP, Cloud Native Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Hole is a seasoned cloud-native engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as VP of Cloud Native Engineering in San Francisco after rising through technical and architectural roles at Onix. A Kubernetes expert and active kops emeritus maintainer, he combines hands-on infrastructure work—contributions to projects like kubicorn and kops—with strategic leadership in production-grade cluster operations, multitenancy, and ML platform delivery. He has deep AWS and GKE experience, driving features for resilient node registration, NAT gateway support, and infrastructure-as-code patterns. Previously a cloud-native consultant at Google PSO and Fairwinds, he excels at operational readiness, observability, and automation for internet-scale systems. An early-career professional chef and former investment banking analyst, he brings an unusual blend of discipline, operational rigor, and customer-focused execution to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
hamden hallBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at University of ConnecticutHopkins school
Spanish, English
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
infrastructure10
kops10
go10
aws10
devops10
cloud-computing10
kubernetes-pods10
terraform9
amazon-ec29
container9
cnc9
terraformer9
autoscaling8
docker4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 111 commits, 145 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Eric contributed new API fields, `ngwId` and `ngwEip`, to the `kops` codebase related to network configuration within the Kubernetes ecosystem. They modified core files related to networking models, API definitions, and validation to support the use of NAT Gateways and Elastic IPs. The user also modified the `create_cluster.go` file to allow for the specification of NAT Gateways, and enhanced the integration tests to confirm the changes. These changes indicate a focus on infrastructure-as-code principles to build a full-featured Kubernetes deployment.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
kubicorn/kubicorn
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Simple, cloud native infrastructure for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:28 commits, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on cloud infrastructure management and orchestration within a Kubernetes context. Their commits focused on implementing features related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically around handling SIGTERM signals for cleanup operations and integrating master IP lookup for node registration. They modified launch configuration scripts and the main reconciler logic to improve robustness and reliability. Additionally, the user made code formatting changes across multiple files to adhere to coding standards.
hands-onnovainfrastructuredockerk8s
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