Eric Smalling
Principal Solutions Architect at Chainguard
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolEric Smalling is a Principal Solutions Architect with 15 years of experience designing and operationalizing cloud-native, containerized platforms—now helping customers secure supply-chain software at Chainguard. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible automation, and platform migrations from his time at Snyk, VMware, and Docker, often blending security engineering with DevOps practice. Eric’s background spans large enterprise systems (airlines, travel booking) to developer advocacy, giving him a rare mix of field-facing consulting and technical delivery. An active practitioner in security tooling, he has implemented exploit proof-of-concepts and containerized deployment pipelines on GitHub, highlighting his pragmatic approach to threat modeling and remediation. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he pairs pragmatic architecture with public speaking and training experience to accelerate adoption of secure, scalable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaComputer Science, Computer Science at Tarrant County CollegeShadow Mountain High School
Stackoverflow
755reputation
375kreached
6answers
2questions
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
dockers10
exploit10
kubernetes-pods10
containerization9
bash9
google-sheets9
tomcat9
cicd8
java7
log4j7
javas7
serial-port6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
snyk-labs/java-goof
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Security Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Security Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 33 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric implemented a Tomcat RCE exploit using Python, demonstrating security engineering skills. They also created a shell script to build and run the exploit with Docker, showcasing DevOps practices. Furthermore, the user made several commits related to setting up Kubernetes deployments and related tooling, indicating expertise in cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
ericsmalling/jenkins-with-docker
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 5 years 2 months
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