Eron Wright
Staff Software Engineer at Akuity
Depoe Bay, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEron Wright is a staff software engineer with 13+ years building cloud-native, stream-processing, and agentic AI systems across startups and enterprises including Microsoft, Dell EMC, Pulumi, and StreamNative. He blends hands-on backend engineering—contributions to Apache Flink, Pulsar, and Pravega—with leadership roles such as Chief Architect and Director, shipping Kubernetes-based data platforms and multi-cloud SaaS. Eron specializes in agentic systems and AI tooling, integrating modern JavaScript/Python frameworks and hosting agents on AWS AgentCore and similar environments to make developer-facing AI practical. His open-source track record includes meaningful fixes and features in high-profile projects (Apache Flink, Pulsar, Pulumi) that improved core messaging, stream checkpointing, and infrastructure lifecycle robustness. Colleagues rely on his emphasis on mentorship, clarity of purpose, and tooling to scale teams and processes, and he’s equally comfortable prototyping new agentic products as he is optimizing distributed storage and streaming backends. Based in Depoe Bay, Oregon, he brings a rare combination of production-grade systems engineering and AI-forward product design.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
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Github Skills (52)
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back-end-development10
testing10
configuration-management10
big-data10
data-serialization10
distributed-systems10
pulsar10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
pravega/pravega
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Pravega - Streaming as a new software defined storage primitive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 26 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Eron primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Pravega project. Their work included adding Java serialization capabilities for key client configurations and credentials, ensuring proper shutdown procedures in the SegmentStore server, and standardizing the use of the Authorization header for authentication. They also made changes to Java serializers and incorporated a test for Java serialization.
streaming-datadistributed-storagereal-time-datadefineddata-ingestion
pulumi/pulumi
Feb 2020 - Apr 2025
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 28 PRs, 55 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eron's contributions primarily involve modifying lifecycle tests within the Pulumi engine. The changes include fixing issues related to plugin host usage and ensuring proper cancellation signals are sent to providers. They have implemented several test cases to cover edge scenarios and ensure the correct handling of cancellation and shutdown procedures, improving the robustness of the Pulumi platform. Additionally, the user has fixed a panic in the mapper_encode function, addressing a bug that occurred when encoding certain values, and enhanced the testing framework.
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