Eric Larssen
Platform Engineer III
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Larssen is a Platform Engineer III with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and platform products. He has repeatedly improved developer productivity and reliability—leading a 15-person CI/CD team, establishing org-wide standards adopted by 500+ engineers, and delivering a FedRAMP Moderate EKS environment with 99.99% uptime. Eric has architected high-impact systems including a $5.5M/year ecommerce rewrite, an in-house Kubernetes platform managing 1000+ containers, and open-source platform tooling like Koreo. Skilled in Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, and infrastructure-as-code, he also drives FinOps and security improvements (NLB/HSM TLS termination) that reduced latency and saved six-figure annual costs. Based in Ames, Iowa, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship—having coached 15+ engineers—and a track record of turning modernization initiatives into measurable operational gains.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
English
Github Skills (108)
controller10
sbom10
ingress-nginx10
haproxy10
static-analysis10
cyclonedx10
sarif10
kubernetes10
amazon-cloudwatch10
ingress-controller10
docker10
ingress10
nginx-controller10
spdx10
nginx10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ericlarssen-wf/pies
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 56 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 7 months
ericlarssen-wf/amazon-eks-ami
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
ekspackeramikubernetesaws
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