B Zimmerman
Sr. Director, DevOps at HUMAN
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.
15 years of coding experience
19 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 (27)
application-settings9
hubot9
terraform9
knife9
graph9
macos8
ice8
automation8
ansible8
cookbook8
infrastructure-as-code8
coffeescript7
amazon-web-services7
slack7
homebrew7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jbz/valleyofsteel
Mar 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
jbz/knife-audit
Sep 2011 - Mar 2016
Plugin for Opscode Chef's 'knife' utility to gather cookbook use info
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
cookbookknifegatherchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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