Summary
Erik Trimble is a Senior Build and Release Engineer and systems architect with over two decades of hands-on experience designing large-scale, maintainable infrastructure and lifecycle systems. He combines deep expertise in release engineering, cloud migrations (AWS), virtualization (OpenStack, VMware), and big data deployments with a knack for tying diverse teams—Engineering, Product, and Marketing—into a coherent delivery process. As a consultant he’s driven implementations for clients like AT&T, Michelin, and Healthline, and currently improves build and release workflows at Smith+Nephew. Known as a “Swiss-Army Knife” systems person, he prefers architecture-level work that integrates hardware and software for high performance and easy maintenance. Unusually for ops roles, he leverages an extroverted communication style to bridge organizational gaps and accelerate cross-functional collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English