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Eric George

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Kissimmee, Florida, United States

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  • Weights & Biases
    Senior Python / DevOps Engineer – ML Platform
    Weights & Biases
    Feb 2022 - Current (4 years 8 months)
    Weights & Biases provides ML experiment tracking and model observability tooling for distributed ML workflows.
    Kubernetes & Platform Architecture
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    Architected and maintained multi-tenant Kubernetes (EKS) clusters supporting large-scale ML
    experiment tracking workloads processing millions of metric events per hour with 99.99%
    uptime.
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    Designed Horizontal Pod Autoscaling and cluster autoscaler strategies to dynamically scale
    ingestion workers based on CPU and queue depth metrics, reducing compute waste by 27%
    while maintaining low-latency ingestion.
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    Implemented pod disruption budgets and readiness/liveness probes to ensure zero-downtime
    rolling deployments.
    Infrastructure as
  • Confluent
    Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer
    Confluent
    Feb 2019 - Jan 2022 (3 years)
    Confluent builds enterprise-grade event streaming infrastructure around Apache Kafka.
    High-Throughput API Services
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    Built high-performance REST APIs using FastAPI with async/await concurrency to process
    high-volume Kafka-backed event ingestion systems.
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    Reduced API latency by 28% after migrating synchronous endpoints to asynchronous I/O
    operations.
    Kafka Event Processing & Distributed Challenges
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    Developed distributed consumer services processing millions of streaming events daily with
    strict ordering guarantees.
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    Reduced consumer lag by 30% through partition tuning and horizontal scaling of consumer
    groups.
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    Implemented idempotent processing logic and stru
  • GitLab
    Infrastructure Software Engineer
    GitLab
    Feb 2016 - Jan 2019 (3 years)
    GitLab provides a full DevOps lifecycle platform with CI/CD and source management.
    CI/CD Backend Systems (Flask)
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    Developed internal microservices using Flask to support CI runner orchestration and distributed
    job scheduling logic.
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    Optimized job queue prioritization algorithms, reducing average build wait times by 35%.
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    Resolved race conditions in pipeline state transitions using optimistic locking techniques.
    Containerization & Environment Consistency
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    Assisted in containerizing legacy services using Docker, reducing environment-specific
    deployment failures.
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    Contributed to early Kubernetes adoption for staging environments, enabling consistent and
    reproducibl
  • Squarespace
    Python Backend Developer
    Squarespace
    Jun 2014 - Jan 2016 (1 year 8 months)
    Squarespace is a SaaS platform powering millions of websites and merchants.
    Django REST API Development
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    Developed RESTful backend services using Django + Django REST Framework to power
    merchant analytics dashboards.
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    Refactored monolithic views into modular service layers, improving maintainability and reducing
    request processing time by 22%.
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    Resolved N+1 query inefficiencies using select_related and prefetch_related, improving query
    efficiency under high traffic.
    Asynchronous Processing with Celery
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    Implemented Celery-based background workers to decouple heavy report generation and billing
    processes from synchronous web requests.
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    Solved queue bottleneck
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • The Johns Hopkins University
    M.S. in Computer Science
    The Johns Hopkins University
    Jan 2012 - May 2014 (2 years 5 months)
  • The Ohio State University
    B.S. in Computer Science
    The Ohio State University
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2011 (5 years)