Eric Mrak
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Fastly
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Mrak is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud and on-premise compute platforms, currently focused on large-scale reliability at Fastly. He has designed and migrated Kubernetes platforms across datacenters and multi-region AWS, led platform teams, and implemented global networking, IPAM, and enterprise SSO patterns at scale. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, Eric pairs strong communication with hands-on expertise in AWS, EKS, Terraform, and GitOps to deliver observable, cost-tuned infrastructure. His background spans frontend SDK work to leading platform engineering teams, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on operational challenges. Based in Walnut Creek, he brings a fast-learning, team-oriented approach and an eye for pragmatic, reproducible infrastructure automation. Unusually, his GitHub persona—Peacock of Darkness—hints at a creative streak behind an otherwise deeply systems-focused career.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of California, DavisMSI, Human-Computer Interaction, MSI, Human-Computer Interaction at University of Michigan - School of Information
English
Github Skills (199)
consumer-driven-contracts10
python10
windows10
testing10
autocomplete10
opencost10
cost-optimization10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
gcp10
lua10
gpu10
kitty10
k8s10
integration-testing10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mrak/qmk_firmware
Oct 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
azagniotov/stubby4j
Aug 2012 - Apr 2013
HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and WebSockets stub server for stubbing distributed web services in Docker and non-containerized environments for integration and contract testing
Contributions:22 commits, 4 comments in 8 months
dockerstubbingtestingwebservicewebsocket
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