Eric Swanson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Resilience) at MagicSchool AI
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Swanson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in observability and resilience with eight years focused on SRE practices and a longer history in systems support. He builds strong partnerships with service teams to uncover assumptions, translate real needs into shared context, and deliver measurable improvements in availability and performance. At dbt Labs he drove incident automation, on-call training, Datadog consolidation, and SLO dashboarding, and at NS1 and Dyn he tuned monitoring and SLOs for critical infrastructure like DNS and ELK. Eric combines hands-on tooling and runbook work with a pragmatic, people-first approach—seeking employers who treat engineers as their most valuable resource. A BSEE from the University of New Hampshire, he brings deep operational experience and a knack for turning post-incident learnings into durable system improvements.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at University of New Hampshire
English
Github Skills (20)
nagios9
datadog8
postgresql-database8
code-behind8
monitoring7
hugo7
dd6
import-data6
integrations6
operation6
postgresql6
incident-response5
incident-management5
documentation4
terraform-provider3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swanson8r/DynCodeChallenge
Jul 2019 - Jul 2025
Response to the hidden Dyn.com Code Challenge written in JavaScript
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
swanson8r/swanson8r.github.io
Jul 2019 - May 2026
Github Pages Website
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 60 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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