Colin Booth
Senior Linux System Engineer at Zillow
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolColin Booth is a Senior Linux System Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience managing mission-critical infrastructure at Zillow, specializing in virtualization, Terraform, and large-scale Debian-based systems. He currently oversees a core service stack of roughly 2,500 systems across multiple virtualization platforms and data centers, balancing operational simplicity with resiliency. His background spans release engineering, deployment tooling, and hands-on support work, giving him a deep appreciation for observability and postmortem-driven improvement. Comfortable at both low system levels and orchestration layers, he favors pragmatic automation that reduces operational toil. An early career focus on OpenBSD and academic work in informatics hints at a strong security and systems-thinking foundation that informs his infrastructure decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Informatics, Bachelor of Science, Informatics at University of WashingtonAssociate of Arts, Associate of Arts at Seattle Central CollegeComputer and Cognative Science, Computer and Cognative Science at Hampshire College
Github Skills (48)
distro10
package-management10
linux10
deb10
binaries10
package10
irssi8
runit8
cookie7
openrc7
calculator7
irc6
nodejs5
gateway5
slack5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
heliocat/void-packages
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
The Void source packages collection
Contributions:159 pushes, 181 branches in 2 years
builderprefixvoid
heliocat/void-ansible-network
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Ansible role to configure networking on Void Linux
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
void-linuxansiblelinuxnetworkingvoid
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