Eric Herot
Director Of Cloud Operations
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Herot is a Director of Cloud Operations in Boston with 14 years of hands-on experience building and running large-scale hosted systems, container platforms, and serverless architectures. He leads devops teams while remaining deeply technical—driving migrations to configuration-as-code, optimizing networking and Linux internals, and auditing systems for security and performance across services handling hundreds of millions of daily requests. His open-source contributions span Chef, Fog, HubSpot Singularity and kOps, including improving AWS integrations and test coverage for widely used tooling. Prior roles include operating production Kubernetes and Mesos platforms at scale and authoring numerous Chef cookbooks, demonstrating a consistent focus on reliability, automation, and observability. He’s a Boston commuter who favors bikes and transit, and outside engineering he’s active in urban housing advocacy as founder of JP YIMBY. Notably, he combines low-level systems expertise (networking, process/memory management) with high-level orchestration skills across Terraform, Kubernetes, and serverless stacks.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Newton North High SchoolLoyola University Chicago
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
git10
cookbook10
kubernetes10
kops10
scripting10
technical-writing10
testing10
net10
configuration-management10
html-template10
python-templates10
openvpn10
networking10
ubuntu10
ruby10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
chef/knife-ec2
Jul 2013 - Feb 2015
Chef knife plug-in for AWS EC2
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the `knife-ec2` plugin for the Chef ecosystem. Their contributions included implementing features such as color-coding server outputs, retrieving and utilizing the validation key from S3, and allowing network interfaces to be attached during bootstrap. They also refactored code and implemented unit tests to improve code quality and test coverage.
aws
sous-chefs/openvpn
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Development repository for the openvpn cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric focused on enhancing the openvpn cookbook, a configuration management tool. Their contributions centered around implementing and testing functionalities related to generating and utilizing Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), a security feature. They added ChefSpec and Serverspec tests to validate the correct generation and application of CRLs, along with making configurations adjustments to incorporate this feature.
openvpnchef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
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