
Principal Cloud Economist @duckbillhq & former global SA @awscloud
Louisville, KY
Joined April 2008
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The velocity I’m pushing code out now is just crazy… I can’t imagine the things I could have done if I had this earlier in my career.
I was thumbing through one of my old Computer Shopper magazines from 1991 when I ran across this gem
Poor AWS has to put the Mac mini in a sled for their MacOS offering… imagine what they could do with this paired with Nitro!
Curious what we have been working on at Duckbill? Mike goes through it in this thread:
Can't wait to visit the Duckbill SFO office again so I can hear this live. shitposting.coffee/
(Yes this is real, and yes @QuinnyPig did it all himself)
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With a small assist from @sendcutsend, an ESP32, a hand-soldered junction board, two go microservices, a Kubernetes cluster, a Raspberry Pi, a bluetooth speaker, Codex stitching some print files together, and a sarcastic number of test brews.
Our office coffee machine now sings original songs when the pot is emptied, thanks to @ElevenLabs and a bunch of bullshit from @QuinnyPig
I will never use @Lowes same-day delivery again. Ordered on July 6, said it got delayed, then yesterday I chat and they say they are checking on it and today I had to call for 21m for them to say they will open a case and respond back in 24h. Crazy 😠
Replying to @ericpullen @Lowes
Not sure if the delivery driver never picked it up, or did pick it up and just never delivered it. 🤷
Look, I always love watching Screaming in the Cloud, but the latest episode with @reconditerose is next level with AI!
youtube.com/watch?v=W3eqB4iv…
Best way for me to spend Father's Day: building an app for my daughter to practice for her KY driver's permit test!
The practice tests are just walls of text and sometimes kids need a different approach. She's loving it so far, so I thought I'd share:
permitpal.ericpullen.com/abo…
AWS makes a change to pricing for ACM on 2/18/2026 but takes until 6/10/2026 to get changed in the Pricing API. The AWS Rube Goldberg SKU machine must have broken down. 😬
This seems bad... 🤦♂️
Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts theverge.com/tech/941179/met…
WTF is this and why do we need this? Even with as good as LLM’s have gotten, this has to be super fragile use case that an API call has to remote control a freakin VDI Windows box!
youtu.be/LzNeOEvn0us?si=lwHD…
Sometimes you get irritated enough with a problem that you just have to fix it yourself. For anyone else annoyed with paste not working on certain apps, I offer TypeAround:
typearound.ericpullen.com
Tells the app the keyboard is typing the characters from the buffer. That’s it.
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We're hiring a Head of Engineering at @DuckbillHQ.
We think the entire cloud cost management industry is solving the wrong problem. While everyone else is building tools for making bills smaller for startups, we're building a data platform for making them more predictable and less complex across an entire enterprise.
Given we're early days, this is a builder role. You'll be in the code every day and setting the pace for the team. You'll be leading the team on foundational decisions from day one.
The engineering problems are interesting. We're processing hundreds of millions of rows of billing data per customer per month. We're modeling pricing schemes and contract structures for every provider we support. The dimensionality reaches into the thousands of columns when you combine provider billing data with customer data and the datasets hit terabytes easily. The customer needs to not just query this data, but modify it too--faster than a traditional data pipeline allows.
We're ~12 people, based in SF, well-funded through revenue and our investors, and have the kind of customer list and brand awareness most seed-stage companies spend years trying to build.
Feel free to DM me. Job post and more details about our point of view are linked below.
Got my @TakiUdon_ SuperStation One founders edition today. The hardware feels really nice and the box is very cool, now just need a few hours to start playing with it!
Have you ever wondered what @QuinnyPig would say if AWS finally released Savings Plans for RDS? Well wonder no more, just listen to the the end of the latest LWIA episode for a hilarious 3 minute diatribe! youtube.com/watch?v=q0U4Tl5l…
If you are at #reinvent2025, stop by and say hi! We are in booth #1217 right next to Splunk.
Anyone else noticed that the @VenetianVegas smells of cigarette smoke way more than in the past? Already burning my throat just walking through the casino. #AWSreInvent




















