Erik Ahrend
Principal Cloud Engineer at dv01
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Ahrend is a Principal Cloud Engineer based in the New York City area with eight years of experience designing secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure and architecting scalable backend systems. He helps software teams ship production-grade services by tearing down monoliths, building cloud-native platforms, and embedding reliability and security into architectures. Comfortable as an individual contributor and occasional engineering manager, he has progressed through roles focused on SRE, cloud architecture, and platform leadership at dv01 and MakerBot. He codes in Go and Python, automates operational workflows, and prefers transparent, pragmatic solutions that let teams focus on product rather than plumbing. Outside work he experiments with side projects and new technologies, which fuels his practical approach to modernization and migration efforts. He is explicit about not engaging with crypto/DeFi recruiting, signaling focused domain interests and priorities.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities, Associate's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities at Ocean County College
English
Github Skills (144)
google-cloud-platform10
terraform10
gcp10
ruby10
cloud-platform10
google-cloud10
cdktf10
appengine10
golang10
go10
harness9
buster9
javascript9
dotnet9
cloud-sql9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eahrend/terraform-provider-harnessv2
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
Terraform provider for provisioning Harness resources
Contributions:2 releases, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
eahrend/papabob
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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