Erik Alan Schweller

Professional Summary

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience in software automation, infrastructure, and quality metrics. Passionate about leveraging data-driven insights to optimize performance, harden security, and mentor high-growth engineering teams.

Experience

• Security & Architecture: Hardened security infrastructure by architecting a vault wrapper library and migrating core secrets to HashiCorp Vault.
• Observability Tooling: Designed a Failure Analysis suite using pattern clustering to automate root-cause investigation for CI/CD pipelines.
• Cost Optimization: Quantified 7.11 TB RAM and 135.78 TB storage waste within legacy systems; established a roadmap for resource reclamation and legacy deprecation.
• Infrastructure Scale: Stabilized HA-NDU test systems through automated boot checks and race-condition repairs for VIP reservations.
• CI/CD Innovation: Deployed a new self-hosted CI for GitHub leveraging the k0s toolchain for improved infrastructure control.

• Set global quality, testing, and CI strategies; owned overall company-wide quality efforts.
• Developed Python-based (Flask, SQLAlchemy, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run) test result reporting system and associated client libraries for Python and Java.
• Led dynamic deployment project using Taskfile, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Garden to stand up entire working deployments of the product in GCP.
• Dramatically reduced costs by removing statically provisioned environments.
• Managed internal tools team developing testing, DevOps, and deployment features.

• Led engineering team focused on building automation offerings, including SDKs and APIs supporting mobile and browser-based testing.
• Designed new features and planned integrations across Applause products while mentoring team members on development and testing practices.

• Led automation, infrastructure, integration, and release teams; developed frameworks for efficient product development.
• Built reporting and metrics facilities and managed hiring and onboarding for new employees.

• Early member of test automation team; designed framework for testing complex file system behaviors, scale, and stress.
• Built tools for creating and verifying file/directory layouts and wrote performance testing software.

• Developed engineering software using Python, QT, and BOOST libraries for complex applications.
• Maintained C DLLs and requirements for database migration tools.

• Supported client projects in an Agile environment employing Extreme Programming practices.

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