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 Skills

Machine Learning Data Preprocessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Unsupervised Learning Predictive Modeling Regression Analysis Feature Engineering Logistic Regression

AI Tools

NumPy Jupyter Scikit Learn 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