Erik Munson
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarErik Munson is a seasoned software leader and founding engineer with 11 years of focused experience building web and developer-facing platforms from early-stage startups to Netflix-scale systems. He’s led teams that shipped and scaled CI/CD and delivery experiences—taking products from closed beta to company-wide defaults—and ran the End Developer Delivery organization to unify developer workflows. Hands-on across the stack, Erik has made notable open-source contributions to Spinnaker (both Gate and Deck), improving orchestration APIs and management UIs for large-scale deployments. He cut his teeth as a founding engineer at WHOOP and has a background in fast-moving startups and product-led companies like HubSpot and Streak, blending product sensibility with strong technical execution. Based in San Francisco, he brings a practical, systems-first approach to distributed systems, developer experience, and operational reliability that’s informed by pager-duty rotations and direct customer pairing. Not obvious from the resume: he still draws on early web-era breadth (WordPress/Flash days) to move quickly between prototyping and production-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (26)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
groovy10
restful-api10
java10
javas10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
rest-api10
spinnaker10
react10
javascript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/deck
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 267 commits, 396 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Erik made several contributions focused on enhancing the Spinnaker Deck UI. They implemented features to improve the AWS server group resizing capabilities, added UI improvements for filtering, and made updates to navigate instance details post-React rewrite. Further work included developing global search functionality, including adding a minimum character requirement. Additionally, the user fixed core and Amazon component rendering issues, and improved the presentation of artifact details.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
spinnaker/gate
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Spinnaker API Gateway
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 7 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Erik contributed to the Spinnaker API Gateway by implementing new features and modifying existing ones. They added endpoints for canary executions, including ad-hoc execution and pause/resume functionality for applications. The user also modified code related to base image baking, Keel veto endpoints, and proxy methods, demonstrating a broad understanding of the system's components. This involved changes to the controller, service, and internal service files related to the specific modules.
api-gatewayapigolanggatewayspinnaker
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