Eric Berglund
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Berglund is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building products from solo version-1.0 launches to resilient infrastructure at YouTube and Azure-scale systems. He spans front-end React, Android, and back-end services in Java, Python, C#, and C++, with deep strengths in systems design, cloud architecture, and scalability. At Gusto he helped grow and ship Mosey through acquisition, and earlier roles at Google and Microsoft honed his work on YouTube Infrastructure and Android Automotive. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive enhancements to OpenStack Nova’s PowerVM driver—improving hotplugging, disk management, and test quality. Customers and teams benefit from his strong communication, pragmatic problem-solving, and a penchant for translating real user pain into robust technical solutions. Trained in physics at Princeton, he brings analytic rigor and curiosity to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Princeton University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
openstack10
python10
networking9
devops9
testing7
apidoc5
api5
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed significantly to the OpenStack Nova project, focusing on enhancements to the PowerVM driver. Their work included implementing network interface hotplugging, adding PowerVM configuration options and documentation, and improving disk management. They also addressed bug fixes and refactored test code for the PowerVM driver, demonstrating a focus on both feature development and code quality.
openstack
powervm/powervm-ci
Jun 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:252 commits in 1 year 11 months
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