Eric Hotinger
Senior Principal Engineer at Confluent
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEric Hotinger is a senior principal engineer and seasoned software leader with 12+ years building high-throughput, cloud-native systems across Microsoft, AWS, and Confluent. He led Redshift’s control plane and service teams at AWS, launching serverless Redshift, Zero-ETL integrations, data sharing, Multi-AZ reliability, and generative SQL features that serve thousands of customers. A hands-on architect fluent in containers, distributed systems, and DevOps, he contributed to Azure CLI and Azure Container Registry tooling, improving startup performance and CI/CD ergonomics. Known for turning “impossible” projects into production realities, he combines product-minded engineering with operational rigor and a track record of shipping game-changing platform features. Based in Redmond, he pairs deep execution experience with mentoring and cross-functional leadership.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English
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Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 55 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the Azure CLI, focusing on Azure Container Registry (ACR) command modules. Their work included implementing new features, such as allowing Azure DevOps URLs and adding support for secrets. They also worked on build improvements, including logging context size and client-side log polling. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes and made documentation updates, enhancing the overall functionality and user experience.
azurecommand-line-interfaceazure-clicloud
ehotinger/blog
May 2018 - Mar 2026
Contributions:169 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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