B Zimmerman
Sr. Director, Engineering at Addepar
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolB Zimmerman is a Sr. Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building resilient, decoupled core platforms and infrastructure for mission-critical SaaS at firms like Addepar, Medidata and Sailthru. He specializes in scaling platform teams and tooling—driving performance, security engineering, and recoverability while reducing operational noise through pragmatic architecture and tighter dev-ops integration. A former military analyst turned professional operator, he pairs strategic, policy-level thinking with hands-on execution (including zero-downtime datacenter migrations and dramatic alert reductions). Based in New York, he mentors engineering organizations to be reliable and enabling for product teams while keeping a penchant for fountain pens, fiction writing and flying planes—an eclectic blend that surfaces in disciplined, creative problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ABD Defense and Arms Control Studies - Political Science, ABD Defense and Arms Control Studies - Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAB Politics, AB Politics at Princeton University
English, French
Github Skills (47)
graph10
backup10
application-settings9
hubot9
terraform9
linux9
aws9
productivity-tools9
macos9
terragrunt8
terraform-module8
ansible8
hashicorp8
infrastructure8
hcl8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jbz/knife-audit
Sep 2011 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
cookbookknifegatherchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
jbz/valleyofsteel
Mar 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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