Dennis Hoer
Site Reliability Engineer at Zoox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Hoer is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years in production-focused roles and a long history in the automotive and edtech sectors, currently operating out of San Francisco at Zoox. He blends deep operational expertise in databases (Oracle, MySQL), data warehousing, and cloud-native tooling with hands-on DevOps automation using Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and a variety of scripting languages including Ruby. His career traces back to designing mission-critical Oracle systems and evolving teams toward CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code at Pearson and TuSimple. Known for improving reliability, performance tuning, and incident response, he pairs pragmatic engineering with documentation and compliance practices that keep complex platforms sustainable. He contributes to community tooling across Chef, Chocolatey and Docker ecosystems and brings an uncommon combination of legacy enterprise database experience and modern cloud automation. With an MBA from the University of Iowa and a BS in MIS, he’s equally comfortable translating business needs into durable, auditable operational solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Information Systems, BS, Management Information Systems at University of Northern IowaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
install-script10
rdbms10
linter10
xvfb10
ecosystem10
thin10
hashicorp10
browser10
vagrant10
database-migrations10
flyway10
groovy10
nssm10
database-administration10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dhoer/chef-selenium
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
Chef cookbook to install and configure Selenium
Contributions:46 releases, 11 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 7 months
cookbookchefconfigureselenium
dhoer/docker-flyway
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Dockerized flyway command-line tool with MySQL (Connector/J) JDBC Driver
Contributions:9 commits, 19 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 2 months
phpmyadmindockerizedjdbcjdbc-drivercommand-line-tool
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