EJ Etherington
Vice President, Protocol Engineer at Galaxy
White Salmon, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEJ Etherington is a Vice President and protocol engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling infrastructure and reliability teams across startups and large enterprises. He’s led SRE and platform organizations at companies including Calendly, Stack Overflow, Datadog, Fairwinds and now Galaxy, combining hands-on platform work with executive strategy. Known for driving transformative, cost-effective operational improvements in remote and hybrid environments, he often takes short, high-impact engagements to stabilize systems and accelerate delivery. A collaborative manager who prioritizes team morale and scalable processes, he pairs an MS from Oregon State with deep practical experience across DevOps, site reliability, and protocol engineering. Based in White Salmon, Washington, he brings a pragmatic, culture-first approach to distributed teams.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA/BS, BA/BS at The Evergreen State CollegeMS, MS at Oregon State University
Github Skills (198)
circleci10
operator10
continuous-testing10
charts10
validation10
kapacitor10
helm10
rbac10
kubernetes10
audit10
authorization10
package-manager10
docker10
service-accounts10
monitoring9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ejether/k8sh
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
FairwindsOps/kube-ip-purge
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Helpful pod for purging stale IP leases from Kubernetes Weave IPAM
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
ipsstaleleaseshelpfulweave
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