Zachary Perkins Email & Phone Number

Omaha, Ne, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Creating value for our customers by highlighting pain points and bottlenecks and then showing them how they can implement a more efficient solution.Working to improve CI/CD and platform availability for DMDC.

New York, Ny - New York, Us

- Spearheading automation & delivery of applications using Gitlab CI/CD.- Upgrading hardware and software configurations to fully automated configuration using Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD and Python.- Establishing processes and procedures for Agile development.- Building out the observability platform for complete visibility across edge servers, databases and IoT devices using Prometheus, Loki and Grafana.- Red Hat Linux administration across on-prem servers Dell servers in isolated VLANs.- Configuring RAID arrays for on-prem servers.- Configuring VLANs, DNS, DHCP and switches in cloud and on-prem Linux servers.- Used Podman to run containers as systemd processes.- Created virtual machine images used for localized testing with Linux environment.- Setup IGEL OS units with IGEL UMS.

Minneapolis, Mn , Us

Contracted under Apex Systems.- Created a Jenkins pipeline to build out custom golden AMIs in Packer and built out custom Jenkins modules to handle the AMI lifecycle.- Wrote pipelines to automatically patch AMIs with the newest golden image in Python and Groovy and helped reduce reported vulnerabilities by 25%. - Built custom Docker images for authentication apps.- Designed and created new dev environments in ECS clusters using Terragrunt/Terraform with Jenkins.- Created zero-downtime patching solutions for priority cloud security infrastructure, including bastion hosts, Jenkins clusters and proxies.- Guided IaC best practices for the coding disciplines to bring junior members of the DevOps team in line with GitOps.- Wrote Postgres RDS deployment code, optimizing for regional read-write replicas.- Contributed to overall design of zero-downtime infrastructure deployments in AWS.- Resolved issues within the deployment pipelines for ETL and containerized services.

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

- Wrote Lambda functions in Python using Pulumi to interact with Azure DevOps API and improved our agent pool monitoring.- Developed observability dashboards with New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana for efficient EKS node monitoring.- Cut self-managed AWS EKS cluster hosting Azure DevOps agent spin-up time by 75% through customized Docker image caching.- Upgraded self-managed EKS Windows nodes through AWS EC2 Image Builder and improved build time through Docker image cache improvements on the base images.- Managed NPM libraries and wrote technical design specifications, ensuring robust project documentation.- Assisted dev users on optimizing their service infrastructure and educated them on using our custom platform tooling.

Elkhorn, Ne, Us

- Designed migration from Azure App Service with periodic release deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service for rolling blue/green deployments.- Built out Azure AKS clusters using Terraform and Terragrunt in ADO CI/CD pipelines.- Automated Fusion Marketplace mobile app releases for iOS and Android.- Implemented Dynatrace APM and service dashboards for enhanced observability and minimized downtime.- Dockerized web services and integrated them into ADO pipelines for streamlined deployments.- Provided expert consultation to dev teams on CI/CD processes and IaC best practices. Helped the dev teams transition from nighttime downtime deployments to day deployments.- Configured OpenMesh in AKS for rolling canary deployments to production.

Boys Town, Nebraska, Us

- Created automated workflows for VM and app deployments using vRealize Automation, Rundeck, and Powershell. Wrote the scripting in Javascript.- Developed Azure app deployment pipelines, integrating seamlessly with CI/CD workflows.- Spearheaded upgrade of Splunk and VMware infrastructure for enhanced performance and functionality.- Wrote out the automation to deploy MSSQL DBs.

New York, Ny, Us

- Developed CI/CD pipelines for web applications featuring a suite of tools that includes Jenkins, Nexus, Docker, Rancher, Ansible, VMware and AWS.- Upgraded existing high-availability, scalable architecture in AWS.- Managed network security of web applications through Palo Alto and certificate management.- Developed and upgraded unified monitoring dashboards and metrics scripts which channeled into Datadog and Nagios. Automated deployment and configuration of agents.- Developed and managed websites on Wordpress platform for hundreds of customers in HTML and CSS.- Upgraded, patched and troubleshooted VMware resources and ESXi host on an on-call basis.- Upgraded Atlassian infrastructure (Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket)

Falls Church, Va, Us

- Developed automation for deploying Java applications to Glassfish and Weblogic application servers using Ansible. - Developed and upgraded scripts for configuring and patching middleware, Glassfish, WebLogic and Apache web servers using Perl and Bash.- Upgraded Splunk infrastructure.- Upgraded Atlassian Infrastructure.- Developed new monitors for capturing key performance metrics in Nagios.- Participated in security audits of core applications and provided DoD with comprehensive documentation on NIST security compliance of middleware components..- Performed load testing for applications using JVM and jMeter tools.- Migrated strategic platform software to AWS cloud and improved platform performance.- Secret clearance.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Supporting the Groups product and providing service to moderators and members of those groups.• Supporting members through education and training. I also participated in mentoring and training other representatives on Groups.• Tracking problems in the group software and reporting to the product manager for the Groups product.• Ensuring 100% customer satisfaction with any Groups-related issues.• Communicated consumer feedback and documented needed changes for developers.• Documented changes in the product by the developers to the consumers.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Helped our Premium subscribers with the best personal and customized service. • Provide basic and technical support.• Answered questions from premium subscribers as they pertain to their account, their credit card and their order history.• Engaged in discussions with others in Customer Support to find better solutions to common issues.• Maintained a vast knowledge of web functionality and how changes to the web environment affect LinkedIn.• Maintained knowledge of networking and data transfer on the transport and application layers.• Provide support to Premium subscribers through live chat.• In an unofficial capacity, I tracked application bugs for the developers in JIRA for about two years. We tracked trending issues in Kana and Oracle RightNow support system and then translated that data into JIRA reports.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cloud Computing

Associate’S Degree, General Studies, With An Emphasis In History And Information Technology