Andrew Zak
Head Of Development at Loadbalancer.org
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Zak is a Head of Development with nine years of hands-on experience building resilient, high-performance infrastructure for always-on services. Based in Portsmouth, he has progressed through engineering and management roles at Loadbalancer.org, where he now leads development of scalable, open-source-based load balancers that keep critical systems running 24/7. He blends deep technical experience in distributed systems and uptime-focused engineering with people leadership, having grown from software engineer to department head within the same product-focused company. Comfortable making trade-offs between performance, reliability, and operability, he prioritizes practical solutions that avoid single points of failure. Andrew’s background includes early work on modern VPS hosting platforms, giving him a long view of service delivery from deployment to production support. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings operational discipline and a knack for tackling problems others avoid.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science Portsmouth The United Kingdom, BSc (Hons) Computer Science Portsmouth The United Kingdom at University of PortsmouthAmsterdam The Netherlands, Amsterdam The Netherlands at International School of Amsterdam
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
daemon10
cluster-manager10
clustering9
active-passive9
grpc7
golang6
high-availability6
agent5
windows4
haproxy3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
loadbalancerorg/windows_feedback_agent
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Windows feedback agent to control the real server weight of HAProxy based on server load and other metrics.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
windowsagenton-serverhaproxyfeedback
loadbalancerorg/go-feedback-agent
Oct 2018 - May 2019
A service used to dynamically set real service weight depending on available resources in HAProxy.
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 7 months
haproxyreal-service
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