Erik Ostien
Senior DevOps Engineer at Ping Identity
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Ostien is a Senior DevOps Engineer with five years of hands-on experience advancing cloud-native infrastructure and developer workflows at Ping Identity. A UC Berkeley computer science alumnus with a strong foundation in algorithms, systems, and languages from Python and Java to RISC-V and C, he bridges low-level understanding with practical backend and web development skills. His progression from software engineering intern to senior DevOps reflects deep familiarity with Spring, React/Redux, and production-scale deployment patterns. Based in Denver, he combines a hardware-aware perspective—having built a 2-stage pipelined CPU in school—with day-to-day expertise in observability, automation, and team collaboration. Pragmatic and curious, he consistently turns academic projects and internship learnings into reliable, scalable solutions in large engineering organizations.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (24)
docker10
pingfederate10
identity10
docker-compose10
docker-container10
openflow10
ping-identity10
ping10
devops10
pingaccess9
snmp9
kubernetes9
pingone9
ansible9
network-tools8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pingidentity/pingidentity-docker-builds
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Sample docker builds for the Ping Identity product line.
Contributions:38 releases, 370 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 6 months
docker-sampleping-identitybuildsdockerdocker-compose
pingidentity/pingcli
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
A unified command line interface for configuring and managing Ping Identity Services
Contributions:115 reviews, 67 PRs, 100 pushes in 5 months
pingfederatepingoneterraform
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