Eric Ji
Senior Solutions Architect - Strategic Alliances
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Ji is a Senior Solutions Architect based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years focused on cloud-native architectures, AI/LLM enablement, and Kubernetes ecosystems. At F5 he drives strategic alliances and joint solutions that marry infrastructure, DevOps IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef) and OpenShift/Kubernetes to accelerate customers’ move to cloud-native and generative-AI deployments. He has a track record of building partner programs and GTM motion—previously leading technology alliances at Mirantis and technical marketing and engineering teams at Juniper—bridging engineering rigor with go-to-market execution. Eric blends deep systems and automation expertise with product marketing instincts, enabling technical sales, POCs and customer-facing performance demos that convert into revenue. His background includes an MS in Computer Engineering and an MBA, and an unexpected thread through his career is a foundation in astrophysics, reflecting a long-standing appetite for complex systems and quantitative thinking.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (BS) Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Astrophysics at Nanjing UniversityMBA Management and Entrepreneurship, MBA Management and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (48)
puppet10
cisco-ios10
ansible-automation-platform10
networking10
rhel10
automation10
ansible10
network-automation10
juniper10
cisco10
oms8
vms8
tower8
monitoring8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
f5devcentral/ansible-tower-workshop-examples
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
For Ansible Linklight - F5 Networking Workshop
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
workshopnetwork-automationansiblenetworkingtower
f5devcentral/f5-puppet
Aug 2017 - Jul 2021
Puppet modules for F5 BIG-IP
Contributions:3 releases, 119 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 11 months
big-ippuppet-modulespuppet
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