Steve Ermish
Chief Operating Officer
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Ermish is a seasoned technology and operations executive who currently serves as COO and co-owner of fast-growing Inc. 5000 company Opkalla, bringing over 20 years of experience across CIO, CTO, and COO roles. He has a proven record of driving digital transformations, building recurring revenue through strategic partnerships (including a rapid Microsoft Cloud Gold attainment), and turning around IT organizations while embedding data-driven decision making and Agile product delivery. Steve pairs hands-on technical chops—PCB and IoT product design for a Kickstarter-backed startup—with executive strength in finance, HR, legal, and sales operations, making him equally comfortable in the server room and the C-suite. A two-time CIO of the Year and Charlotte Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree, he’s known for creating repeatable playbooks and compensation tools that scale teams and revenue. Notably, he has led cyber risk and HIPAA compliance initiatives with zero incidents, and he still signs his GitHub bio as “head nerd at Opkalla,” signaling an enduring maker mindset.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard Business School Club of CharlotteInformation Systems, Information Systems at The University of Texas at Arlington
Stackoverflow
113reputation
15kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (29)
python8
home-assistant7
iot7
home-automation7
raspberry-pi7
postman6
azure6
nodejs6
automation6
privacy6
mqtt6
docker6
nodemon6
newman6
visual-studio-code6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
steveermish/RingCentral-REST-API
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
steveermish/scentselector-electron
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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