Eric Wolfe
Release Manager at Microsoft
Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolEric Wolfe is a Release Manager and systems-focused engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating infrastructure for cloud and HPC environments, currently driving Azure Batch capacity planning and regional buildouts at Microsoft. He blends deep systems management, Chef/Omnibus packaging, and Perl scripting expertise with hands-on storage and Oracle performance tuning to deliver portable, production-ready software—recently contributing a MUSL-linked universal Linux agent and upstream fixes to Chef's ohai and omnibus-software projects. Comfortable moving acquired teams into enterprise processes, Eric has led engineering teams to GA releases while improving build systems, cross-platform packaging, and security/compliance for acquisitions. Based in Kentucky, he pairs pragmatic DevOps automation with a background in infrastructure security and QA, and has a habit of finding small, impactful improvements (like adding binary stripping to Omnibus) that significantly reduce deployment size and complexity.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Technology Management, MS, Technology Management at Marshall UniversityPhilip Barbour High SchoolBS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at Concord University
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Github Skills (15)
configuration-management10
rspec10
lxc10
linux10
chef-solo10
docker10
chef-client10
package-management10
dockers10
build-automation10
ruby10
configurations8
windows8
configuration-file8
github5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chef/omnibus-software
Jul 2015 - Apr 2019
Open Source Software for use in Omnibus built packages
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the build and configuration of software packages within the `chef/omnibus-software` repository. Their work involved modifying software definitions to incorporate platform-specific configurations, such as adapting the build process for SUSE/SLES x64 systems and Windows environments. They added and updated dependency checksums, and also updated build configurations to use raw githubusercontent.com links for specific components. These actions involved maintaining the build infrastructure.
omnibusopen-source-software
chef/ohai
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric contributed significantly to the `ohai` project by implementing and testing the detection of LXC and Docker containerization. They modified the `virtualization.rb` and `virtualization_spec.rb` files to accurately identify virtualization technologies based on the contents of `/proc/self/cgroup` and incorporating specific logic for both LXC and Docker. They also added support for the detection of LXC hosts and improved the robustness of the cgroup matching logic.
configurationconfiguration-managementohaiemitsruby
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