Summary
Erik Hollembeak is a Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating high-scale, service-critical distributed storage and cloud infrastructure. He has driven reliability, capacity forecasting, and cost-effective design across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments at companies including Block, Twitter, IBM, and Amazon. Erik excels at leading teams to prioritize operability and ease of delivery while developing tooling and systems that automate complex operational workflows. His background spans deep systems engineering and platform work, from cloud object storage to graph infrastructure, enabling pragmatic tradeoffs between performance and cost. Based in Seattle, he pairs research-driven problem solving (rooted in an early academic focus on machine learning and experimental systems) with extensive production experience. Colleagues rely on him to turn reliability goals into measurable, repeatable engineering practices.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish