Eric Steen

Site Reliability Engineer / Devops
📧 eric@steen.run 🌍 Grand Forks, ND

Professional Summary

I bring experience from hardware repair to cloud infrastructure. I've worked across the full stack from hardware debugging to kubernetes orchestration. When systems break, I can troubleshoot at any layer.

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

Core Scientific • Grand Forks • Sep 2024 - Jun 2025
  • Set up systems to collect and organize log files from different applications. Grafana Loki Prometheus
  • Tested new software before it went live, helping other departments connect their tools. Kubernetes Terraform Github Actions
  • Found new methods of error tracking to detect possible future incidents. Datadog
  • Fixed internal tools that were notoriously difficult to work with and maintain. Bash Unix Docker

Hardware Engineer

Core Scientific • Grand Forks • Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
  • Wrote software to automate boring, repetative tasks, which cut downtime by 20%
  • Led several projects involving dozens of people to upgrade old systems, and did it under budget and ahead of schedule
  • Successfully scrapped legacy systems in favor of modern and more reliable systems
  • Record holder for most repairs in a shift, while also doing all the heavy lifting myself.

Projects

For detailed writeups of my projects and technical explorations, visit my projects blog.

Skills

Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Trace Repair Soldering Circuit Analysis Embedded Programming Cloud Services