Rich Ercolani
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarRich Ercolani is a Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently focused on keeping Google's services robust and scalable from his base in Baltimore. He brings deep systems and storage expertise, evidenced by substantive contributions to the OpenZFS project where he has improved core ZFS features, resolved build and vulnerability issues, and authored clear documentation and compatibility guidance used by operators. Comfortable spanning low-level back-end work and technical writing, he improves observability and performance while also warning about real-world deployment pitfalls such as container environment issues. Known for a pragmatic, curious approach—he describes himself on GitHub as "randomly wandering around, causing trouble"—he combines steady production responsibility with impactful open-source stewardship.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
filesystem10
openzfs10
bash10
c1110
c1710
kernel10
system10
sys10
performance-optimization10
zfs10
kernel-mode10
systemd10
documentation10
scripting9
freebsd9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
Jul 2016 - Nov 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 reviews, 152 commits, 139 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the OpenZFS project by implementing and improving core ZFS features. Their work included adding and modifying tunables to enhance performance, addressing bugs, and integrating metadata/dnode cache information into existing tools for better system monitoring. The user also focused on fixing build issues and addressing potential vulnerabilities related to library dependencies and environment configurations, showing a commitment to system stability and interoperability. This indicates a focus on maintaining and enhancing the core functionality of the ZFS filesystem.
openzfstarballlinuxfreebsdsystem-software
openzfs/openzfs-docs
May 2021 - Jun 2022
OpenZFS Documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributes to documentation within the OpenZFS project. Their work includes updating build instructions and requirements for different operating systems, and adding information related to new features and compatibility. The user also corrected outdated information and added warnings about potential issues in container environments. In addition, they updated a compatibility matrix script.
openzfs
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