Erik Evenson
Associate Director,IT Cloud Consulting
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Evenson is an Associate Director in IT Cloud Consulting based in Austin with 13 years of hands-on experience architecting large-scale hybrid and multi-cloud solutions for public sector, healthcare, and enterprise clients. He combines deep technical execution—Terraform, Packer, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS/GovCloud, and IBM Cloud—with pre-sales solutioning and governance for Infrastructure-as-Code at Kyndryl and previously IBM. Erik’s background spans product-stage startups to NASA aerospace engineering and includes building commercial SaaS and energy-contracting systems, reflecting a rare mix of systems engineering, business acumen (Rice MBA), and long-term project ownership. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure tooling, he’s improved Docker integration in HashiCorp Nomad to better support AWS ECR and flexible image handling—an example of his focus on production-ready, resilient orchestration.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Bachelor of Science Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Finance and General Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Finance and General Management at Rice University
English
Github Skills (11)
docker10
orchestration10
go10
orchestra10
nomad10
dockers10
containerization10
devops9
aws9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 31 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Erik's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Docker integration within the Nomad project, specifically addressing AWS ECR support and image handling. They modified the Docker driver to correctly parse and utilize image repositories, including those using HTTPS and custom authentication. Further work involved refactoring the Docker configuration and integrating the plugin executor for running tasks. These changes improve the flexibility and robustness of Nomad's container orchestration capabilities.
consulmicroservicesvault
ErikEvenson/galaxy
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 852 pushes, 24 branches in 2 months
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