Erich Stoekl
Site Reliability Engineer at Apple
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolErich Stoekl is a Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building resilient infrastructure and operational strategy for services at scale, now working at Apple out of Chiyoda, Japan. He has held SRE roles at Treasure Data and Booking.com where he focused on authentication/authorization, configuration management, monitoring, and mentoring engineers. Equally comfortable in development and operations, Erich began his career in software engineering at Microsoft and contributed DevOps expertise at Motorola and Beyondsoft. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the official OpenFaaS CLI—adding filtering, regex flags, aliases, and improved error handling—which reflects a pragmatic focus on developer workflows and tooling. He combines a Computer Engineering degree from Penn State with study in Computer Science at Tohoku University, bringing cross-cultural experience and a systems-oriented mindset to platform reliability. Colleagues describe him as a strategist who pairs hands-on coding with long-term supportability and service design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Penn State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Tohoku University
Github Skills (11)
golang10
error-handling10
go10
cli10
testing10
regex9
automations8
automation8
templating7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/faas-cli
Sep 2017 - May 2018
Official CLI for OpenFaaS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 33 PRs, 238 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Erich made several contributions to the `faas-cli` project. Primarily, they implemented new features such as the `--filter` and `--regex` flags, enhancing the CLI's functionality for filtering and matching functions. Additionally, they addressed bugs and improved code by removing unnecessary files and adding error handling. They also added aliases and improved the template functionality of the CLI.
golanglambdapythonfaas-clitemplating
ericstoekl/faas
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
:whale: Functions as a Service - a serverless framework for Docker & Kubernetes
Contributions:1 release, 129 pushes, 17 branches in 11 months
serverlessdockeras-a-servicekubernetesaws
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