Erich Blume

Platform & Backend Engineer

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Summary

Platform engineer. Coder first. I build CI/CD pipelines, internal developer tooling, and infrastructure-as-code so that engineering teams can own their software from commit to production. Fifteen years across backend development, SRE, and platform engineering.

Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

2024-06 – Present

Worldpay for Platforms Remote Payments

  • Pulumi (C#, Python), Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless (TS/JS)
  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD
  • Ansible, Bash, PHP, Packer
  • Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, EC2
  • VPC, Transit Gateway, Route53, Entra
  • Datadog, Rootly, Jira
  • Incident response coordination

Backend & DevOps Engineer

2022-08 – 2024-06

Independent Contractor Remote Various

  • AWS CDK (Python), Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation
  • AWS Organizations, Well-Architected Framework
  • Chef Workstation, Ansible, Concourse, Packer
  • Crystal, Ruby, SparkleFormation
  • Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis
  • Performance profiling, database optimization

Senior Software Engineer

2020-02 – 2022-08

Coffee Meets Bagel Remote Online Dating

  • Python, gunicorn, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy
  • AWS EKS (Kubernetes)
  • ArgoCD, Kustomize
  • Postgres
  • Datadog APM, PagerDuty
  • CI/CD pipeline development

Senior Backend Developer

2018-02 – 2018-12

Patreon San Francisco, CA Creator Payments and Subscriptions

  • Flask, SQLAlchemy, Python
  • Security and compliance engineering
  • HackerOne bug bounty program

Software Engineer

2017-01 – 2018-02

Stripe San Francisco, CA Online Payments

  • Ruby, Java
  • Splunk
  • FinCEN API
  • Internal compliance and auditing tooling

Bioinformatics Engineer

2015-01 – 2016-12

Biotique Systems Reno, NV Agrotech Software Consulting

  • Perl, C, C#, Python
  • KML / GIS, drone sensor data
  • Database reverse engineering

Web Developer

2013-06 – 2014-03

Eventbrite San Francisco, CA Event Ticketing

  • Python, Django, RabbitMQ
  • Performance optimization

Engineer

2012-09 – 2013-06

Hipmunk San Francisco, CA Travel Booking

  • Python
  • ZeroMQ, S3
  • Mixpanel
  • Fabric

Bioinformatics Engineer

2010-06 – 2012-10

Verinata Health Redwood City, CA Medical Diagnostics

  • Python, R
  • Linux, KVM (512-core compute cluster)
  • Bowtie (genomic alignment)
  • Patent: US9845552B2 — Set membership testers for aligning nucleic acid samples

Open Source

SQLAlchemy

Contributor

sqlalchemy.org Python

Contributed a bugfix for reflecting SQLite database column types, and other small fixes.

Homebrew

Contributor

brew.sh Ruby

Contributed formula bugfixes and updates for the daemontools package.

Volunteering

Details

Languages
Python, Bash, SQL, Ruby, Go, C#, C, Perl, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Crystal, R, Kustomize, LaTeX, YAML, JSON
Portfolio
docs.eblu.me — Documentation for a complete infrastructure-as-code homelab that self-hosts these docs alongside dozens of other services.