Erica Von Buelow
Engineering Manager II at Flexport
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErica Von Buelow is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms, currently managing an 11-engineer team at Flexport focused on AWS, ECS/EKS, networking, CI/CD, and remote dev environments. A full-stack engineer and perpetual math lover, she blends rigorous systems thinking with an aesthetic sensibility that shapes usable, reliable products. Her background includes core contributions to Kubernetes and OpenShift-related projects at CoreOS and Red Hat—work that improved operator reliability and ClusterOperator status handling in the widely used machine-config-operator. Erica is comfortable at the intersection of DevOps, security, and platform engineering, and she has repeatedly led migrations from monolithic stacks to modern containerized architectures. Colleagues rely on her to translate abstract technical trade-offs into practical roadmaps while coaching senior engineers across distributed teams.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyReed College
English
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Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
server-configuration10
configurations10
go10
openshift10
system-configuration10
kubernetes-pods10
automations9
automation9
error-handling9
yaml8
testing8
cicd7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/machine-config-operator
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Erica primarily focused on enhancing the machine-config-operator, particularly concerning the handling and reporting of the ClusterOperator status. Their work included removing redundant logic, setting initial and syncing the "Upgradeable" status condition for the machine-config ClusterOperator resource. Furthermore, the user made changes to enhance the reliability and stability of the operator, including truncating error messages in node annotations to avoid size limitations. They also addressed issues related to rendering configurations on various platforms, including VSphere.
ericavonb/origin
May 2018 - Mar 2019
Enterprise Kubernetes for Developers
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
hands-onkubernetes-deploymentskaffoldnamespacesfor-developers
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