Erik Jacobs
Director, Tech Marketing, Evangelism, Strategic Initiatives, Hybrid Platforms
Cumming, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolErik Jacobs is a hybrid platforms leader and hands-on technologist with 16+ years of experience driving technical marketing, solutions architecture, and developer evangelism at Red Hat. He blends deep cloud-native expertise (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Ansible, RHEL) and DevOps automation with a track record of building reproducible training and workshop infrastructure for OpenShift and multi-cloud deployments. Equally at home in the garage as on the data center floor, he pairs motorsports electronics and precision driving experience with product marketing and event logistics, giving him a rare practitioner’s perspective on hardware, software, and customer engagement. A natural tinkerer and script-driven problem solver, Erik has contributed tooling and lab automation to widely used OpenShift training repos and cross-cloud Ansible deployers. He holds an electrical engineering degree from Columbia and combines entrepreneurial instincts—co-founding startups and running DGTrials—with senior leadership in strategic initiatives.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Herricks High SchoolBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
German, Japanese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (38)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
infrastructure10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
sh10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/training
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:829 commits, 325 PRs, 423 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the setup and configuration of infrastructure components related to OpenShift training. They focused on creating and configuring Docker registry and router installations using shell scripts. The user updated scripts to manage the certificates and configurations necessary for secure deployments. The user also made changes to the installation of other OpenShift components such as logging and PHP.
OpenShiftDemos/openshift-ops-workshops
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Workshop materials for OpenShift admin training, covering Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, Modern App Dev Roadshow's Ops Track, and Summit 2023 Hands-on with OCP Plus.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 365 commits, 317 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Erik contributed to the automation and management of the OpenShift environment. Their work included creating scripts for DNS configuration, setting up infrastructure for network labs, and developing a CI test pod with integration to a Qwiklab API. They also made changes to deployment scripts and workshop settings to align with OpenShift versions and homeroom standards, demonstrating an understanding of deployment and infrastructure management within the OpenShift ecosystem.
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