Bob Zoller
Staff Software Engineer at Zipline
Makawao, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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SeniorBob Zoller is a seasoned staff software engineer with over two decades of experience building web applications, platforms, and deployment tooling from the early "shopping cart" days to modern cloud-native systems. He’s a founding engineer who scaled Good Eggs’ platform and data infrastructure for 12 years, later applying that platform mindset at Google and now at Zipline. Bob blends hands-on backend, DevOps and full‑stack expertise—contributors to projects like Convox and Travis CI reflect his focus on reliable deployment, PaaS ergonomics, and production resilience. He has a track record of founding and growing companies (ISP, aerospace software, Aardvark → Google acquisition) and of shepherding teams through platformization and operational maturity. Based in Makawao, Hawaii, he describes himself as luddite-leaning, signaling a pragmatic, simplicity-first approach to technology. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, deployment hardening, and turning complex engineering problems into practical, maintainable systems.
21 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (25)
docker10
amazon-ecs10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
aws10
aws-ecs10
heroku10
paas10
deployment-automation10
testing9
npm9
apidoc9
api9
cli8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
convox/rack
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Private PaaS built on native AWS services for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 53 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Bob's contributions primarily revolve around improving the Convox PaaS, focusing on enhancing the `convox run` command, including handling non-TTY stdin and environment variables. They also worked on improving the deployment messaging, which suggests contributions to the build and deployment process. Further contributions include fixing memory scaling and rebundling api templates.
aws-servicespaasdockerecsaws
travis-ci/dpl
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Dpl (dee-pee-ell) is a deploy tool made for continuous deployment.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to improving the deployment process of the `dpl` tool. They added functionality to handle build exit codes from Heroku deployments and implemented a loop to accommodate potential delays in Heroku build status updates. Additionally, the user addressed an issue related to custom registry protocol stripping within the npm provider. These changes highlight a focus on improving the reliability and integration of the deployment tool with Heroku and npm.
continuous-deployment
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