Ethan Harstad
Firefighter EMT at Boone Fire Department
Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Harstad is a Senior Lead Solutions Architect with 14 years of cross-disciplinary engineering experience, blending cloud-native architecture, AI-enabled solutions, and full-stack development. He has a proven track record leading technical communities and driving SRE, IaC, and CI/CD practices across enterprises, most recently designing AI-driven systems at Athene. Early entrepreneurial work building communications and control systems for high-altitude balloons and small satellites informs a practical hardware-to-cloud perspective that benefits complex distributed systems. Ethan pairs hands-on embedded and mechanical experience from Aerodyne Labs with senior cloud and observability leadership roles at Accenture, Ocelot, and Granular. Based in Iowa, he also serves his community as a firefighter/EMT, bringing calm decision-making and operational rigor to incident response and technical root-cause analysis. He’s as comfortable sketching hardware prototypes as he is shaping enterprise AI deployments, a blend that helps translate experimental projects into production-ready platforms.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (24)
balloon9
altitude9
prediction9
timelapse8
portal8
kicad8
sky7
3d-models7
python6
iot-device6
rest-api5
youtube5
machine-learning5
athena5
astronomy5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AerodyneLabs/Stratocast
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014
Deprecated - Replacement: https://github.com/AerodyneLabs/Athena
Contributions:209 commits in 9 months
replacementathena
ethanharstad/tailboard-app
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:42 PRs, 118 pushes, 48 branches in 2 years 8 months
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