Eric Wanchic
Staff / Principal • Full-Stack Engineer • DevOps Engineer
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Staff / Principal Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer

Senior Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer with 30+ years of professional experience designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems. Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Heroku), Dockerized environments, and CI/CD pipelines. Known for modernizing legacy systems, enforcing engineering standards, and enabling teams to ship reliable software at scale.
AWS • VPC • IAM • EC2 • ECS • RDS • S3 Linux • Networking • DNS • Cloudflare Docker • Nginx • TLS/SSL CI/CD • GitHub Actions Ruby • Rails • React • JS PostgreSQL • MongoDB • REDIS • MySQL Monitoring • Logging

Experience

Sr. Software / DevOps Engineer • HerdDogg
Seward, NE • ’23–26 2+ yrs
  • Designed company’s first Docker dev platform; reduced onboarding/setup issues ~60%.
  • Led Rails 5→7 production upgrade with zero downtime.
  • Enforced CI/CD, testing, and linting via GitHub Actions; reduced regressions.
  • Improved search/caching pipelines; cut lookup latency ~30%.
  • Owned PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS/Heroku infrastructure.
  • Documented fixes and improved workflows, boosting team consistency and resolution quality.
Sr. Software Engineer • G2
Chicago, Il • ’22–23 1 yr
  • Contributed to high-traffic Rails services and DevOps operations.
  • Rapidly onboarded into large production codebase and deployment ecosystem.
Sr. Software / DevOps Engineer
Bismarck, ND • ’01–22 20+ yrs
Travel Health America • Lifestream Development Group
  • Scaled infrastructure from 1→22 servers and eliminated third-party IT.
  • Saved ~$250k in operational costs.
  • Built and maintained multiple EMR/EHR platforms and hired internal IT team.
Technology Consultant • Gratiel Technologies
Bismarck, ND • ’12–23 11 yrs
  • Delivered Rails platforms for healthcare, legal mediation, and employee portals.
  • Built automation for data migration, monitoring, backups, and DevOps workflows.
  • Implemented Chef and Docker automation for client environments.
Full-Stack Software/DevOps Engineer • First Court
Mandan, ND • ’12–16 4 yrs
  • Modernized server infrastructure, backups, and cloud-hosted legal applications.
  • Supported real-time online settlement testing platforms.
Computer Support Technician • Sykes Enterprises
Bismarck, ND • ’99–01 2+ yrs
  • Delivered Tier-2 technical support for software, hardware, networking, telephony, and email systems supporting Gateway Computers customers.
  • Diagnosed and resolved customer issues across Windows environments and consumer hardware platforms.
  • Provided customer-facing technical troubleshooting and clear communication to non-technical users.
  • Contributed to team expansion from 10 → 30 technicians through high service quality and performance.
  • Helped the team achieve #1 national performance ranking for 6 consecutive months.
Programmer Analyst • ND Office of Attorney General
Bismarck, ND • ’95–96 2 yrs
  • Provided high-volume technical support across hardware/software/phone/email with strong customer outcomes.
  • Developed first employee evaluation system for the agency.
  • Designed and published the first public website for the agency.

Licenses

ARRL - KB0NJG

Extra Class ('24-34) General Class ('22-24) Codeless Tech ('95-24)

Motor Vehicle

Class D Class M

Productivity

B2B Tools

Slack 4+ yrs MS Teams Asana 4+ yrs Jira Basecamp 6+ yrs Monday Zoom 8+ yrs Google Meet Big Blue Button 2+ yrs Snowflake

OpenSource Online Apps

Wordpress Request Tracker MediaWiki GitLab Big Blue Button 2+ yrs

Media Tools

GIMP 12+ yrs Inkscape 9+ yrs Kdenlive8 yrs Photoshop Illustrator

Office Tools

Office • Libre 24+ yrs PDF Editors Prezi Figma

Skills

Programming

Ruby 13 yrs Rust Python PHP Visual Basic12 yrs Java C C++ node.js

Web Development

Rails 13 yrs HTML 24 yrs CSS 3 • SASS 15 yrs React JQuery Coffeescript Foundation Bootstrap StimulusJS

Database

PostgreSQL 17 yrs MongoDB 2+ yrs REDIS MySQL 10 yrs MS SQL Server7 yrs MS Access16 yrs SQLite

AI Tools

ChatGPT 5.x Github - Copilot Octave (ML) perChance

Testing • Lint • Coverage

Github Actions rspec rubocop simplecov pry eslint scss-lint yaml-lint mdl-lint capybara selenium

OS/Cloud

Linux • Ubuntu • Red Hat 18+ yrs MS Windows 26 yrs Macintosh • Apple ~8 yrs AWS 8+ yrs Heroku • Heroku Shield 8+ yrs Rackspace Google Cloud

Virtualization

KVM 15+ yrs VMWare VirtualBox15+ yrs Docker 8+ yrs Kubernetes

DevOps Tools

Terraform Chef6 yrs git 11 yrs Capistrano8 yrs CD/CI Unicorn5 yrs

Network

CloudFlare 4+ yrs WAF DNS GoDaddy TLS/SSL certbot DHCP iptables • Firewall

Platform

NextCloud • ownCloud • Alfresco NGINX • Apache2 Zimbra • Exchange

Logs • Metrics

Grafana Promethieus BetterStack Skylight Honeybadger

Remote

ssh X2go • NX RDP Go2Meeting • WebEx Citrix

Highlights

  • Reliable operations mindset: backups, patching, least privilege, observability.
  • Clear communicator: runbooks, documentation, and user-friendly support.
  • Comfortable owning systems end-to-end.

Impact

  • Rails 5→7 migration
  • Docker platform adoption.
  • CI/CD enforcement
  • Legacy modernization
  • Infrastructure cost reduction