Erik Mackdanz
Cloud Platform Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Mackdanz is a Cloud Platform Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating Linux-based, cloud-native systems that are easy to launch, change, and scale. He has led platform and SRE teams while remaining an individual contributor, building and managing multi-account AWS environments, 12 EKS clusters, and GitOps pipelines for ~90 applications. Erik is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator who writes pragmatic tooling—everything from Kubernetes secret generators and Datadog monitor generators to migration tools that moved GitLab into Kubernetes with zero downtime. He combines deep fundamentals (networking, release engineering, storage and messaging) with broad experience across AWS services, Cassandra/Kafka operations, and ETL/data indexing for ML. Based in Austin, he’s as comfortable training overseas teams and evangelizing DevOps practices as he is digging into low-level build and image tooling. A former music-education major, he brings a methodical, creative approach to solving operational complexity.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music Education, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music Education at Central College
Github Skills (119)
cloud-files10
lxc10
lxd10
criu10
volumes9
rpg9
linux9
internet-radio9
migrate9
crawler9
backup9
itunes9
virtual-machine9
docker9
mpd9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
erikmack/ledger-website
May 2016 - Mar 2023
The source code behind http://ledger-cli.org
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 years 11 months
ledger-clicode-behindledgercli
erikmack/gmail2ldif
Jul 2010 - Oct 2010
Contributions:40 commits in 3 months
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