Summary
EJ Etherington is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience and 7+ years managing high-performing infrastructure and SRE teams across startups and enterprise environments. Currently Vice President, Protocol Engineer at Galaxy, he has sequentially led platform and reliability organizations at Calendly, Stack Overflow, Datadog, and others, delivering scalable, cost-effective operations and streamlined workflows. EJ is known for cultivating collaborative, high-morale remote and hybrid teams while translating complex technical challenges into pragmatic, auditable solutions. His background spans principal engineering, CTO-level strategy, and deep operational expertise in cloud-native systems, making him comfortable toggling between technical execution and organizational strategy. Based in White Salmon, WA, he blends a practiced focus on efficiency with a penchant for transformative process improvements that reduce costs without sacrificing reliability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA/BS, BA/BS at The Evergreen State College
MS, MS at Oregon State University