Ernest Mueller
Ernest studied electrical engineering at Rice University during the years the Web was born. Upon graduation in 1993 he went to work for FedEx corporate IT in Memphis, Tennessee, where he learned UNIX system administration, programming, and architecture in a number of groups. Eventually he became Webmaster for fedex.com, and co-wrote the first international version of their online shipping software.
In 1998 Ernest moved to Towery Publishing, a small publishing company getting into the Internet game. He headed up the team creating a line of Java-based Web sites serving cities across the US, and eventually got drafted into running the company’s IT as well, conducting a successful ERP implementation. Sadly, Towery went out of business as the Internet bubble burst in 2001.
Ernest moved back to his home state of Texas to take a job managing the Web Systems team at National Instruments in 2002. There, he built up a skilled team and architected six years of expansion of the ni.com Web site, focusing on high uptime, continuous operations, application performance management, system development process, and Web security.
In 2008, Ernest moved into the LabVIEW R&D group at NI, where he was the Web systems architect for its cloud-based SaaS products. He designed Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure-based systems using model driven automation and, with an integrated DevOps team, delivered four SaaS products to market in as many years.
Most recently in 2012 Ernest moved to Bazaarvoice to be their Manager of Release Engineering.
He is active in the DevOps movement, the Austin chapter of OWASP, and helps run both the Austin Cloud Computing Users Group and the Agile Austin DevOps SIG.
Ernest resides with his daughter, Aoife, in Round Rock, Texas.
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