Eric Shanks
Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat
Wauconda, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Shanks is a Senior Solutions Architect with two decades of hands-on experience bridging data center engineering, platform engineering, and technical marketing to deliver pragmatic cloud and virtualization solutions. A VCDX (#195) with deep VMware and AWS expertise, he designs mission-critical infrastructure and modern application platforms that accelerate getting code to production across VMs, Kubernetes, and hybrid clouds. Eric has translated technical vision into market impact as a technical marketing leader and community advocate—founding theITHollow, leading Chicago VMUG, speaking at VMworld, and participating in industry podcasts and events. At Red Hat he focuses on open hybrid cloud platforms including RHEL, OpenShift, and AI, bringing a customer-first technical sales approach. Beyond credentials, he combines practitioner experience running production operations with a talent for storytelling that helps technical teams and business stakeholders align on achievable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Nauvoo-ColusaManagement Information Systems Computers, Management Information Systems Computers at Illinois College
Github Skills (30)
katacoda7
network-automation6
vcenter6
api6
vsphere6
vmware5
upstream5
lifecycle5
terraform4
validate4
apply3
cluster-api3
kubernetes3
scenarios3
subproject3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eshanks16/katacoda-scenarios-1
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Katacoda Lab Scenarios for https://kube.academy
Contributions:103 pushes in 3 months
kubekubernetesscenarioskatacodalab
eshanks16/tanzuservices-demo
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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