Eric Mann
Forward Deployed Engineer at Displace Technologies, LLC
Tualatin, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEric Mann is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years delivering secure, cloud-native systems for defense, enterprise, and high-traffic consumer platforms. He has led teams to achieve DoD IL5 authorization, built enterprise security programs (PCI-DSS, SOX, ISO 27001), and architected Kubernetes-based platforms that cut costs and reduced SEV-1 outages by 95%. His work includes patented AI/ML algorithms driving over $2B in gross revenue and pioneering blue-green database migration techniques later adopted by cloud providers. As founder of Displace Technologies he brought Kubernetes and GitOps simplicity to WordPress hosting, shipping a cross-platform k3s-based MVP and open-source CLI for true dev/prod parity. He pairs hands-on engineering across Go, PHP, JavaScript and Scala with operational leadership—scaling teams through multiple restructures while delivering multi-cloud, compliant infrastructure. An active open-source contributor and speaker, he blends technical depth in zero-trust, containerization, and cross-chain DeFi with a pragmatic focus on business impact.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Political Science, B.S., Political Science at University of OregonCourseraMasters, International Management, Masters, International Management at Portland State University - School of Business
English
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Github Skills (28)
structures10
javascript10
jquery10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
provisioning10
wp-cli10
php10
amazon-s310
jekyll10
aws-s310
devops10
vagrant10
s3-bucket10
bash9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
10up/Engineering-Best-Practices
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015
10up Engineering Best Practices
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 33 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on improving the user interface and overall structure of the documentation site. Their contributions included fixing relative links, enqueues, and fixing issues with SSL. They also updated the footer and header, implemented a new navigation menu, and added the last modified date to pages. The commits show a focus on making the site more user-friendly and well-organized.
reactjsjavascriptreactengineering
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on provisioning and configuring the Vagrant environment for WordPress development. Their contributions involved installing and configuring XDebug, PHPUnit, and Mockery, enhancing the development workflow. They also made changes to the provisioning script to utilize `ln` instead of `cp` for configuration files and implemented features to toggle XDebug support. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the database import script, improving its functionality.
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