Erik St Martin
Principal Software Engineer at Gopher Academy, LLC
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolErik St Martin is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in Go and distributed systems, currently shaping cloud-native architecture at Microsoft while co-founding Gopher Academy. He combines deep systems engineering—Kubernetes, Docker, service discovery—with full-stack fluency across Ruby, Rails, PHP and modern web tech to design highly available, scalable platforms. A prolific open-source contributor, Erik wrote the original SkyDNS and has contributed patches to Go, Revel, Docker and Kubernetes, and co-authored Go in Action. He is an active community builder who organizes GopherCon and regional cloud-native meetups, and has delivered keynotes at major conferences. Known for mentoring developers and fostering ecosystems, he blends hands-on engineering with public-facing advocacy and education. An interesting detail: beyond code, he has a long history running a software consultancy since 1999, giving him both entrepreneurial instinct and production-grade experience.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
G.E.D., G.E.D. at New York State
English
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Github Skills (106)
ecosystem10
golang10
cli10
container10
go10
filter10
docker10
docker-cli10
moby10
skynet10
assemble10
kubelet9
lua9
nvim9
weave9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
skynetservices/skynet-archive
May 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:502 commits in 1 year 5 months
golangdistributed-systemsskynetdistributed
erikstmartin/docker
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Docker - the open-source application container engine
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
containerscontainer-enginedocker
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