A cloud engineer with 7 years of experience in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and AWS infrastructure, Erik Heaney supports mission-critical systems across diverse industries, including healthcare technology, cybersecurity, finance, and scientific research. Erik Heaney is a senior software engineer at InnerOptic Technology, where he continues to advance cloud innovation by managing AWS infrastructure, supporting AI-focused prototyping, and building automated testing systems that reduce manual effort and improve accuracy and reliability across complex technical platforms.
His technical foundation includes expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where Erik Heaney has worked extensively with EC2, Route53, Lambda, CloudFormation, and Terraform. He holds an AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification and has applied infrastructure-as-code principles to build and manage cloud environments for production and prototyping use cases.
Additionally, his CI/CD pipeline skills are useful for facilitating development and automation. Erik Heaney has designed and maintained pipelines using Spinnaker, Jenkins, and GitHub to support scalable backend systems. These pipelines have reduced manual work, accelerated deployment cycles, and improved system consistency across development and production environments.
Heaney, experienced in containerization and orchestration technologies, has deployed and managed Docker-based systems and worked with Kubernetes and AWS ECS to support distributed applications. His work includes building remote desktop gateway applications using Guacamole, ReactJS, Nginx, and SAML/OAuth for SSSC, deployed via Docker Compose on an EC2 instance provisioned with Ansible.