Eric Wong
@ericwong2
Senior platform engineer building Kubernetes platforms with measurable reliability.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a staff-level 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—always focused on reliability, governance, and measurable outcomes.
At Amazon, I architected and governed multi-region, multi-account Kubernetes as an Internal Developer Platform for 30+ teams, delivering 99.99% availability. I built an AWS landing zone in Terraform (5 days to 2 hours), implemented EKS cluster/workload account separation to reduce blast radius, and increased deployment frequency 3× (bi-weekly to daily) while cutting incidents 70%.
My work blends automation and security: I enforced policy-as-code in CI pipelines (OPA + Checkov + tfsec), improved security posture with IRSA and CloudTrail auditability for SOC 2 Type II, and reduced MTTR 35% with an SLI/SLO observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry. I also drive FinOps savings ($1.2M annually) through Reserved Instances, Spot, and rightsizing—without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Architected and governed a multi-region, multi-account Kubernetes internal developer platform for 30+ teams, delivering 99.99% availability. Built Terraform-based AWS landing zones, GitOps (ArgoCD/Helm/blue-green), and DevSecOps policy-as-code (OPA/Checkov/tfsec), cutting incidents 70%, provisioning time 95%, and saving $1.2M annually with FinOps (RI/Spot/rightsizing).
Owned infrastructure and reliability for a Kafka-based event delivery platform handling 2B+ daily events at 500K+ peak throughput with 99.9%+ availability. Built AWS foundations (EC2/VPC/MSK/RDS), migrated 200+ instances to modular Terraform to cut provisioning from days to 30 minutes, and improved detection/triage (MTTD 80% reduction).
Contributed to backend services and monolith-to-SOA migration supporting global booking traffic with safe incremental rollout practices. Built high-performance REST APIs in Java/Spring Boot/PostgreSQL with sub-100ms p99 latency and reduced peak API latency 25% using asynchronous Kafka workflows and Redis caching.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin from 2012 to 2016.
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