Bob Van Zant
Infrastructure Manager at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBob Van Zant is an infrastructure manager and hands-on engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating secure, pragmatic systems from OS-level components to network-exposed APIs. He has led compute, storage and networking teams at Citadel and now oversees on-prem and cloud infrastructure at Balyasny, consistently delivering short, usable iterations that win customer trust. A pragmatic polyglot comfortable in Python, Go and bash, he specializes in the “bottom half” of the stack and has built production Kubernetes controllers, bare-metal lifecycle tooling, and scalable research platforms. He contributes to open-source tooling for cloud automation (notably enhancements to the troposphere CloudFormation library) and brings a long-running focus on security and operational rigor dating back to early work on firewalls and secure cross-account AWS access. Based in Chicago, he combines deep systems craftsmanship with frequent direct customer engagement to translate real needs into reliable, auditable infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
troposphere10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
virtualbox9
container9
docker9
json9
urllib9
kubernetes9
testing8
cryptography6
encryption6
zeromq6
dictionary6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/troposphere
Feb 2013 - Dec 2014
troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Bob contributed to the troposphere library by implementing new features and making improvements related to AWS CloudFormation descriptions. They added support for S3 bucket creation, implemented a `Tags` class for generic cloudformation goodies, and ensured resource names were alphanumeric. The user also enhanced the UpdatePolicy validation, and included integer_range validators for health checks.
aws-cloudformationpythontropospherecloudformationpython3
cloudtools/ssh-ca
Feb 2014 - May 2017
Management utilities to support a certificate authority for ssh keys
Contributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
certificate-authorityssh-keys
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