Chip Zoller
Product Manager at Apptio, an IBM Company
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolChip Zoller is a product manager and cloud-native technologist with nine years of experience bridging engineering, documentation, and product strategy across startups and enterprise teams. He has led product and architecture efforts at Kubecost and Dell while maintaining and contributing to Kyverno, a widely used CNCF policy engine, where he improved CI/CD, helm charts, and user docs. Comfortable in both hands-on DevOps and product roles, he blends deep virtualization and Kubernetes expertise with clear technical writing that keeps OSS users moving forward. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, he pairs a rare academic background in music performance with pragmatic systems leadership, bringing creative problem-solving and attention to detail to complex infrastructure and developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaDoctor of Musical Arts Music Performance, Doctor of Musical Arts Music Performance at Louisiana State University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
markdown10
kubernetes10
hugo10
cicd10
markdown-it10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
documentation10
github-ci9
bash9
website-admin9
githubaction-workflow9
manage9
git8
argocd6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
kyverno/website
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
User docs and sample policies: https://kyverno.io
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer / Documentation SpecialistContributions:908 reviews, 489 commits, 538 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chip primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Kyverno website documentation. Their contributions involved correcting typos, fixing grammar, and improving the overall clarity of the documentation. They updated sample policies, adjusted the display of content and navigation elements, and incorporated updates related to Kyverno version 1.6 and 1.9, indicating a focus on keeping the documentation current with the project's features. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the site's build configuration and incorporated changes from multiple pull requests.
policieskyverno
kyverno/kyverno
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Cloud Native Policy Management
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:767 reviews, 58 commits, 181 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chip primarily focuses on improving the Kyverno project's infrastructure and build processes. Their contributions include adding and modifying CI/CD scripts, specifically for testing with kuttl and updating the helm chart to include migration guidance. Additionally, they have added notes related to AKS users. They also made contributions to fix issues related to column misspelling.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
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