Ethan Gunderson
Principal Software Engineer, Architecture And Core Services at Cars Commerce
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Gunderson is a Principal Software Engineer focused on architecture and core services, currently driving Cars.com and Cars Commerce’s platform rewrite into an Elixir monolith. With 15 years across management, platform, security, data, and infrastructure, he excels at turning complex problems into boring, reliable solutions and mentoring teams to ship with impact. His work emphasizes database stewardship and end-to-end reliability, balancing pragmatic delivery with robust operational practices. Over a career spanning Groupon, Belly, Instructure, ActiveCampaign, Gamut, and Cars.com, he has merged hands-on engineering with strategic architectural leadership. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he combines practical production know-how with a playful, unconventional streak—he’s even been dubbed 2017's 136784th World's Fittest Man and a self-described weird coffee person.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ASD Software Engineering, ASD Software Engineering at Chippewa Valley Technical College
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Github Skills (118)
terraform10
infrastructure10
declarative10
terraform-module10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
theory10
graph10
req10
shoryuken10
terragrunt10
hcl10
aws10
configuration-files10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ethangunderson/suicide
Apr 2010 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 8 years 7 months
carsdotcom/aws-dist-test
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Clone of distillery-aws-example to illustrate distribution
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
distillerydistributionaws
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