Zachary P. Email & Phone Number

Senior DevOps Engineer working at Apexon with 6+ years of experience.Led numerous initiatives to evangelize and implement CI/CD best practices across thousands of teams. Hundreds of pipelines shepherded into production both in cloud and on-premise. Modernization efforts of complex distributed systems is a particular specialty. Confident with both AWS and Azure Cloud infrastructure. My expertise is especially in Kubernetes based environments with proven track records in EKS, AKS, and bare-metal k3s. Passionate about automation and improving the reliability of digital infrastructure. Focused on containerization technologies and Cloud Native. Highly experienced with configuration management tools and cloud development. My hobbies include working on my Kubernetes based home lab, reading, and playing with my cats. I have developed both a personal website and a home streaming service both hosted on the k3s cluster I maintain in my Oregon home. I bring my passion for learning new technologies and eagerness to exceed expectations to every opportunity I can!CICD Orchestration Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Airflow, MLFlowLanguages: Python, Golang, Java, Groovy, Bash, Powershell, Javascript, C#Cloud Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, EKS, AKS, k3s, k8s, DockerMonitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, ELK stack, SplunkIaaC & Config Management: Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Kustomize, OpenTofu, Chef, CloudFormation, ARMPackage Management Tools: Artifactory, Sonarqube, NexusIQ, NPMBig Data: Spark, Splunk, KafkaMachine Learning: MLflow, Kubeflow, Jupyter, KerasBuild Automation: NPM, MSBuild, Gradle, MavenDatabase Management: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, mongoDB, cosmoDB, RedisVersion Control Tools: Git, GitHub, BitbucketFrameworks: Spring, TestNG, jUnit, Selenium Disciplines: DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, MLOps, GitOps, Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, AGILE

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  University Of California, Davis

  Computer Science