Eric Sarakaitis
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Nationwide
Johnstown, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Sarakaitis is a seasoned site reliability engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience and 20+ years delivering complex IT projects across virtualization, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. He currently leads SRE and cloud teams at Nationwide and Medical Mutual, focusing on reliability, observability, and customer satisfaction for internal application teams. Eric has a track record of institutionalizing DevOps practices, building embedded SRE teams, and reducing technical debt while scaling operations for retail, enterprise, and managed-services environments. Comfortable moving between engineering and operations, he brings deep platform experience with Windows, Linux, VMware/OpenStack ecosystems and automation toolchains. Based in Johnstown, Ohio, he combines pragmatic technical stewardship with people-first leadership and a knack for translating business needs into resilient, auditable infrastructure. An often-overlooked strength is his longevity in community engagement and mentoring, demonstrated by leading the Central Ohio VMware Users Group and growing distributed teams across the US and India.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Lima Technical CollegeDeVry University
Github Skills (59)
storage9
amazon-s39
k8s9
jstree8
kubernetes8
javascript7
filesystem7
backbonejs7
cloud-object-storage7
object-storage7
php7
go7
federated7
s3-bucket7
owncloud6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
esarakaitis/standalone-openstack-havana-ovs-vlan-provider
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
esarakaitis/Powershell-Scripts
Mar 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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