Summary
Andrew Zimdars is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient Linux and AWS-based infrastructures, currently advancing network and cloud capabilities at CENIC. He brings deep hands-on system administration expertise honed through multiple tenures supporting over 35 NASA JPL projects at Raytheon and JPL, where reliability and mission-critical uptime were non-negotiable. Comfortable across DevOps tooling, cloud platforms, and large-scale sysadmin operations, he blends strategic engineering with practical operational rigor. Based in Irvine, California, Andrew has also led IT functions in the private sector and freelanced on mobile and web projects, giving him a pragmatic perspective on both enterprise and product-focused engineering. Notably, his background includes iterative contributions to long-running NASA programs, reflecting an ability to deliver steady improvements under stringent requirements.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Computer Science, Information Technology Computer Science at Arizona State University
English