Eric Lake
Site Reliability Engineer at Mezmo
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Lake is a Site Reliability Engineer based in San Antonio, Texas with 14 years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud infrastructure and internal PaaS/IaaS platforms. He has driven production reliability at companies like Mezmo and Liquid Web and built OpenStack- and OpenShift-based solutions backed by Ceph during multi-vendor engagements at Global InfoTek and Rackspace. Comfortable across automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet) and virtualization platforms (VMware), he pairs deep Linux systems expertise with pragmatic documentation and training to make complex platforms operable by teams. Eric has also led operations teams, redesigned hiring and staffing processes, and created tooling that eliminated repetitive work—an operator who blends engineering with people-first operational improvements. Notably, his career spans both large managed-cloud environments and small, air-gapped enterprise installs, showing a rare versatility in constrained and scale-oriented contexts.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ExecutrainVMwareComputer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Lexington Community College
Github Skills (108)
python10
high-availability10
perl10
kubespray10
k8s10
ssh10
duckduckgo10
bare-metal10
kubernetes-cluster10
helm10
ansible10
kubernetes10
docker10
ide10
aws10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
leominov/pgpool2-exporter
Sep 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 comments, 3 issues in 5 years 10 months
prometheus-exporter
ericlake/prezto
Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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