Eric Thompson
VP Of Engineering at Kion
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Thompson is a results-driven engineering executive with 11+ years of experience scaling product-led B2B and B2B2C marketplaces and leading platform transformations from startup to enterprise. He has repeatedly reduced costs and improved throughput—most recently cutting engineering costs by 75% and boosting per-person output by 40% at TrovaTrip—while aligning roadmaps to KPIs and GTM motion. A pragmatic architect and people leader, Eric has led organizations of 45+ engineers, driven cloud-native migrations, and managed complex acquisitions at Puppet, pairing deep systems and automation experience (including notable contributions to the Puppet automation and Beaker test projects) with strong change management. He blends data-driven decision-making, user research, and automated delivery practices to turn complexity into predictable momentum, and is known for leading with empathy to build durable career paths and retention. Based in Portland, he couples hands-on DevOps credibility with a strategic eye for product and business impact.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Systems Engineering, BS Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (17)
puppeteer10
puppet10
testing10
cd10
bash10
cicd10
ruby10
solaris10
beaker10
test-automation10
admin9
git9
administrator9
sys9
system-administration9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
Sep 2014 - Aug 2018
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits, 14 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the automation and testing aspects of the repository. Their work included adding bash completion scripts to enhance the user experience, and improving the test suite by implementing functionality for exporting structured data. They also addressed platform-specific issues, like correcting package checks on SLES10, and made changes to existing tests to ensure the functionality of features like skip_test and pending_test within the testing framework. Furthermore, they refactored and fixed issues related to the testing infrastructure, including the clone_git_repo_on test.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
puppetlabs/puppet
Oct 2014 - Sep 2018
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:187 commits, 166 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions focused on enhancing the Puppet automation framework, particularly regarding Solaris system configurations. They implemented acceptance tests for various resources on Solaris 10 and 11, addressing issues with drive space and platform-specific setups. The user also modified the test infrastructure to support Puppet configuration and directory environment testing and ensured proper catalog compilation. Furthermore, they made changes to tests involving service scripts, and incorporated automation that was needed for multiple systems.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
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