Erik Meyer Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, Us

Developer Experience, Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering

Seattle, Washington, Us

Creating a developer experience that allows for consistent, seamless service creation and rapid delivery with quality. We have built a Developer Portal providing automated service creation and management that allows Zillow Group's developers to focus on code with a consistent experience across all teams. Along with the Developer Portal, we are building Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines for our Product teams to rapidly deliver ideas to our customers as quickly as possible with quality.To ensure quality and provide fast feedback loops to our Product teams, we build and manage telemetry, logging and monitoring services used across all of our Zillow Group services.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Providing leadership and guidance in Product Delivery. Driving continuous improvement from ideation to production. Focused on delivery utilizing DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and Lean methodologies. Facilitating organizational, cultural and technology changes. Assisting clients in architectural and technology road maps, tool and vendor selection.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Leading global teams in developing continuous delivery pipelines and release automation for Expedia Worldwide Engineering. Responsible for the release engineering of over 200 services spanning customer facing eCommerce sites as well as back end services and internal tools.- Automation built to support a breadth of technology with C++,.NET, JAVA and Ruby on Rails services running on Windows and Linux deployed to both internal data centers and cloud infrastructure.- Teams utilize Jenkins, Chef, Maven, TFS, XebiaLabs Deploy, Ansible, TeamCity, Python and Powershell for release automation.- Continuous Delivery pipelines and automation have reduced time to market for code from monthly to daily while improving quality and end user experience.- Through internal and partner team collaboration, developed strategy and led teams through execution utilizing Agile methodologies.- Helped compile and share release best practices within the company as well as in industry forums.- Building and maintaining relationships across development, operations and product teams to help identify improvements in the release process and continually improve.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Leading release management, operations program management, release engineering and application engineering teams for Lodging Supply Services within Expedia, Inc. Teams support over 70 services providing hotel content and inventory to all Expedia, Inc business units, connectivity APSs for hoteliers and supplier experience tools utilized by hoteliers and internal Expedia employees. Teams are responsible for release scheduling, release engineering and automation, deployments to all environments from QA to Production as well as tier 2/3 production support and infrastructure designs.Led modernization efforts for Lodging organization infrastructure and process including:• Initiated and drove hardware consolidation and VM migration resulting in a much leaner, documented footprint and over $1.3m in annual operational cost savings.• Migrated key services to highly available, multi-location architecture resulting in significant revenue impact avoidance• Greatly reduced time to market for new products and services through optimization of release processes• Led initiatives to automate releases and move to a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline resulting in significantly faster releases, iterative development and significant reduction in time spent by teams on deployments both in lab and production. Utilized a mix of open source and off the shelf products including Maven, Jenkins, TFS, Chef, XL Deploy and Git to accomplish.• Leading diverse teams spanning locations in North America, Europe and Asia.• Partner with peer teams to share best practices and present technology advancements.• Negotiate contracts with vendors to provide services and software.• Effectively communicate system health and issue updates to internal and external teams at an executive level.• Provide organizational direction and communicate short-term / long-term strategies to peer and internal teams.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

IT operations teams supported all payment processing systems handling $15B in annual payments, middleware platforms including Tibco, Oracle SOA suite, and homegrown EAI systems as well as all customer facing websites and eCommerce applications responsible for new customer acquisition and existing customer self-service. Teams supported all production issues as tier 3 escalation points in a mixed 24/7 staffed and on-call environment. 24/7 staffing was accomplished through off-shore vendor support. Teams also were responsible for all software releases, deploying code, validating and coordinating test efforts. Teams received incoming incident tickets, researched and provided analysis to development where code changes were needed. Responsible for customer relationship and communication around known problems.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Managed teams ranging in size from 2 to 22 direct report FTEs and contractorsResponsible for team budgets for travel, training, and operational expenses.Contributed to discussions and implementation of significant organizational change.Regularly meet with external customers to discuss potential system changes, upgrades and issues as well as visit potential customersWork closely with internal customers to give system health status and communicate potential and current system issuesWork closely with team members to develop careers including developing others into successful leadersUnderwent cross-training exercise to manage a development team and help build a better relationship between organizationsResponsible for communication up through Executive level regarding system health and stabilityFacilitate and monitor all changes through the SDLCCurrently implementing ITIL processes into the organizationExperience working in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies. RUP certified.