Erik Hinderer

About Erik Hinderer

Mr. Hinderer has over 25 years of experience in the architectural design and development of mission critical distributed systems and applications. He currently serves as a Principal Solutions Architect at Redis. In this role, he addresses key technical and strategic adoption requirements for Redis’ most influential and impactful customers, creating real-time data application architectures that provide rich user experiences.Mr. Hinderer previously served for eight years with VMware in various roles leading pre and post sales field solutions and field tool development. Before his tenure with VMware, he served as a Systems Analyst for Cisco Systems - Cisco Technical Education where he developed and managed the CTE Advanced Education portal and supporting infrastructure. His roles and responsibilities at 01.com ranged from designing to overseeing new client JavaScript development for private and public cloud hosted environments to managing the systems and infrastructure supporting it.Mr. Hinderer attended the University of Maryland and was an Air Traffic Controller in the United States Army.Influences: Brian Behlendorf (Apache) Kirk McKusick (Berkeley Unix) Tim O’Reilly (Publisher, O’Reilly & Associates) Bruce Perens (Debian Project, Open Source Initiative) Tom Paquin and Jim Hamerly (mozilla.org, Netscape) Eric Raymond (Open Source Initiative) Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation, Emacs) Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions) Linus Torvalds (Linux) Paul Vixie (Bind) Larry Wall (Perl)Specialties: Apache Kafka client applications in Java, Python, C#, Node.js, Spring Boot, C/C++, Golang, Ruby, Rust and Groovy and stream processing workflows in ksqlDB, Relational Database Management Systems, Networking and Security, Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Linux, Unix

Experience

1. Principal Solutions Architect

   Redis

   May 2025 — Present

Education

• FAA Air Traffic Control School

  Certified Air Traffic Controller, Air Traffic Control

  1991 — 1995

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• Solution Architecture
• Storage
• Domain Name System (Dns)
• Networking
• Shell Scripting
• Vpn
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Voip
• Data Center
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Storage Area Networks
• Wan
• Iis
• Vmware
• Network Security
• Vsphere
• Vmware Esx
• Vtsp
• System Administration
• Comptia
• Servers
• Itil
• Cisco Technologies
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Cisco Systems Products
• Switches
• Ip
• Perl
• Network Engineering
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Dns
• Integration
• Vmware Vsphere
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• San
• Wide Area Network (Wan)