Eric Shamow
Engineering Manager, Services Organization
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEric Shamow is an experienced engineering manager and infrastructure-focused leader with 15+ years building and scaling cloud-native platforms across startups and large enterprises. Currently leading Cloud Operations and Core Services at Sourcegraph, he specializes in transforming organizations through DevOps, IaC, and platform engineering while coaching teams to improve communication, transparency, and operational maturity. His track record includes dramatic cost and reliability wins—such as driving host optimization and colocation efforts that yielded >$160M CAPEX reductions at Twitter—and end-to-end platform migrations with zero downtime. A hands-on technologist fluent in Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Ruby and Python, he also contributed to community tooling for automated VM image builds (veewee). Known as a clear writer, educator and policy-maker, he codifies decisions into Architecture Decision Records and runbooks to make change repeatable and auditable. Based in Portland, he blends deep systems-operational expertise with product thinking to align engineering work to business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Completed CS Major, Completed CS Major at Queens College of CUNY
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Github Skills (8)
centos10
linux10
bash10
debian10
virtualization10
ubuntu10
scripting9
vagrant9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/veewee
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Easing the building of vagrant boxes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Eric focused on automating the creation and configuration of virtual machine images for various Linux distributions, leveraging tools like Veewee to streamline the build process. Their contributions involved modifying definition files and scripts to support different OS versions (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu) and architectures (i386, amd64). These changes included adjusting installation parameters, updating package lists, and configuring guest additions, improving the overall box building workflow.
vagrantvmsesxiansiblehyper-v
slalompdx/control_spec_helper
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:32 PRs, 95 pushes, 34 branches in 8 months
puppet-controlsimilarspecpuppet
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