Eric Mrak
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Fastly
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Mrak is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud and on-premise compute platforms, currently focused on large-scale reliability at Fastly. He has designed and migrated Kubernetes platforms across datacenters and multi-region AWS, led platform teams, and implemented global networking, IPAM, and enterprise SSO patterns at scale. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, Eric pairs strong communication with hands-on expertise in AWS, EKS, Terraform, and GitOps to deliver observable, cost-tuned infrastructure. His background spans frontend SDK work to leading platform engineering teams, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on operational challenges. Based in Walnut Creek, he brings a fast-learning, team-oriented approach and an eye for pragmatic, reproducible infrastructure automation. Unusually, his GitHub persona—Peacock of Darkness—hints at a creative streak behind an otherwise deeply systems-focused career.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of California, DavisMSI Human-Computer Interaction, MSI Human-Computer Interaction at University of Michigan - School of Information
English
Github Skills (200)
consumer-driven-contracts10
testing10
autocomplete10
vim10
scheduling10
linter10
credit-card10
api10
stubby4j10
vte10
terminfo10
coffeescript10
stub10
command-line10
validate10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mrak/qmk_firmware
Oct 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
mrak/stubby4node
May 2012 - Mar 2021
A configurable server for mocking/stubbing external systems during development.
Contributions:12 releases, 4 reviews, 283 commits in 8 years 11 months
stubmock-serverconfigurablestubbingtesting
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