Erik Sutherland
Senior InfraSec Engineer at Mercury
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Sutherland is a Senior InfraSec Engineer with 12 years of experience building sustainable platforms and engineering environments from Portland, Oregon. He has progressed from systems administration and database programming to leading infrastructure and security efforts at Mercury, with prior operational and DevOps experience at Palantir, Nike, and NWEA. Erik blends hands-on systems engineering with security-conscious platform design, focusing on reliability, observability, and developer ergonomics. His Github bio hints at a programmer’s curiosity and appreciation for elegant, functional solutions. With dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Psychology from Portland State, he brings both technical depth and user-centered thinking to infrastructure challenges.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Portland State University
haskell, react, javascript, nix, terraform
Github Skills (94)
javascript10
ram10
linux10
lifx10
functional-js10
nixos9
api9
nix9
explore9
functional-programming9
dictionary9
executable8
elm8
eureka-js-client8
nixpkgs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MrRacoon/atom-score
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
A vim-usage scoreboard for the Atom text editor
Contributions:4 PRs, 183 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 7 months
contenteditableatom-pluginvimkakounescoreboard
MrRacoon/reredeux
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:76 commits, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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