Eric User
@ericuser6
Senior platform engineer building Kubernetes and internal developer platforms for secure, reliable, cost-optimized AWS/Azure/GCP.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a staff-level Senior Platform Engineer with 10+ years architecting enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in multi-account Kubernetes platforms, GitOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps—turning governance and automation into measurable reliability and developer velocity.
Most recently at Amazon, I architected and governed a multi-region, multi-account Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform serving 30+ teams at 99.99% availability. I built a Terraform-based AWS landing zone that cut provisioning from 5 days to 2 hours, delivered ArgoCD/Helm GitOps with 3× deployment frequency, improved security via IRSA and policy-as-code (OPA/Checkov/tfsec), and reduced MTTR 35% using a Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/OpenTelemetry observability stack—while driving $1.2M+ annual cost savings.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Architected a multi-region, multi-account Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform for 30+ teams, achieving 99.99% availability and 3× higher deployment frequency. Delivered $1.2M+ annual cost savings and cut AWS landing-zone provisioning from 5 days to 2 hours via Terraform governance and automation.
Owned infrastructure and reliability for a Kafka-based event delivery platform processing 2B+ daily events at 500K+ peak throughput with 99.9%+ availability. Migrated 200+ EC2 instances to modular Terraform, reducing provisioning from days to 30 minutes while improving observability and autoscaling to handle 4× traffic spikes.
Contributed to backend services and a monolith-to-SOA migration supporting global-scale booking traffic using dual-read gating, canary promotions, and Diffy comparisons to eliminate rollout incidents. Built high-performance REST APIs in Java/Spring Boot with PostgreSQL, achieving sub-100ms P99 latency under 50K+ concurrent requests.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin from 2012 to 2016.
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