Daniel Zapata
Real Estate Investor
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Zapata is a Senior Software Engineer with 25+ years in software and 12 years of focused experience driving developer productivity, CI/CD automation, and QA architecture at scale. Based in Redwood City, he has led efforts at Netflix to move from weekly to daily deployments, build commit-to-prod tooling with Docker, Go, and Node, and contribute feature work to the Spinnaker open-source platform. His hands-on background spans full-stack contributions to Spinnaker repos (igor, clouddriver, orca, deck), where he improved Jenkins integrations, deployment strategies, and UI features that surface commit and artifact information. Equally comfortable managing offshore teams and formalizing release processes, he converts manual testing regimes into automated pipelines and uses production code coverage to prioritize tests. Outside engineering, he applies the same analytical rigor to real estate investing and has shared that experience on the BiggerPockets podcast. The blend of deep automation expertise, open-source impact, and operational pragmatism makes him a force multiplier for teams shipping reliable software quickly.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
back-end-development10
groovy10
web-deploy10
ui-design10
java10
deployer10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
web-deployment10
html10
jenkins10
rest-api10
jenkins-ci10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/orca
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Orchestration engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:90 commits, 6 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the orchestration engine by implementing a Jenkins stage with parameters, allowing for more flexible build triggering. They also modified the IgorService interface to support build parameters and integrated with the Jenkins API. Additionally, the user updated the code related to Red/Black deployment strategies by adding a configuration option. The changes showcase an involvement in both the core application logic and the CI/CD processes related to the Spinnaker platform.
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spinnaker/igor
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Integration with Jenkins and Git for Spinnaker
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `igor` repository, which integrates with Jenkins and Git for Spinnaker. Their work involved enhancing the Jenkins integration by adding build artifact information to echo messages and incorporating test results. They also made improvements to the caching mechanisms and implemented a job config endpoint. Furthermore, they addressed a merge conflict and implemented wiring for parameterized builds.
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