Ezra Pagel
Principal Platform Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEzra Pagel is a Principal Platform Engineer based in Austin with 14 years of experience building enterprise-grade systems and platform infrastructure across startups and established companies. He brings deep expertise in C#, Ruby, Java, virtualization, and systems management, and has progressed from founding engineer roles to senior staff and principal engineering positions at companies like brightwheel, Drizly, Auctane, and ShipEngine. Known for bridging product and platform concerns, he has repeatedly led efforts to scale backend services and operational tooling that support rapid growth and complex integrations. Ezra’s background in both technical product management and architecture gives him a strong sense for shipping pragmatic, maintainable solutions that align with business needs. He pairs a BA in Computer Science and English with a long history of hands-on delivery, often tackling the less glamorous but critical work of systems reliability and developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science English, BA Computer Science English at Texas State University
Github Skills (75)
api9
vsphere9
kong9
serverless9
plug9
docker9
nginx9
knife9
gateway9
ai8
microservices8
reverse-proxy8
api-documentation8
luajit8
api-gateway8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ezrapagel/sumologic-net-appenders
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Several appenders for .NET developers to use that send logs straight to SumoLogic.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
dotnetsumologicappendersloggingcsharp
Resly/utalon
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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