Erik Osterman
DevOps Accelerator For Startups & Enterprise
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolErik Osterman is a DevOps-focused founder and CEO with 14 years of cloud engineering experience and a 30+ year technical career who helps startups and enterprises accelerate AWS adoption through Cloud Posse’s open-source reference architectures. He specializes in multi-account Terraform platforms, Kubernetes migrations, release engineering, SRE practices, and cost visibility—building opinionated, production-ready infrastructure that teams can take ownership of. Previously he led cloud architecture at CBS Interactive and has a deep operational background from RightScale-era autoscaling to modern containerized tooling. An active open-source maintainer, Erik contributed significant improvements to Geodesic, a popular DevOps toolbox in Docker, reflecting his emphasis on tooling that developers actually use. He’s as comfortable modeling cloud cost and compliance for Fortune 500s as he is bootstrapping startups, and once traveled the world solo for nearly two years—bringing a global, pragmatic perspective to engineering and culture. Based in Los Angeles, he holds a BS in Computational and Applied Mathematics from UCLA and blends hands-on implementation with strategic technical evangelism.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Landmark EducationCrespi Carmelite High SchoolBS, Computational and Applied Mathematics, BS, Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los AngelesMathematics, Mathematics at Santa Monica CollegeKorean Language Institute, Korean Language Institute at Yonsei University
English, Swedish, Korean
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
terraformer10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
shell10
devops10
alpine-linux9
makefile9
aws9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
cloudposse/geodesic
Dec 2016 - Oct 2020
🚀 Geodesic is a DevOps Linux Toolbox in Docker
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:149 releases, 66 reviews, 193 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on infrastructure and tooling enhancements within the Geodesic DevOps toolbox. Their contributions include containerizing the toolbox with Docker, implementing installation scripts, and adding features such as SSH key management and proxy support. They also made significant updates to the Makefile, added methods for updating Geodesic, and incorporated iTerm integration, and improved the cloud configuration.
infrastructure-managementfastestawsshellvagrant
cloudposse/terraform-aws-codefresh-backing-services
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Terraform module to provision AWS backing services necessary to run Codefresh Enterprise
Contributions:1 release, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
codefreshterraform-modulesprovisionterraformaws
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