Dominic Zippilli
Senior Backend Engineer at Block
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolDominic Zippilli is a senior backend engineer in the D.C.–Baltimore area with a decade-plus career blending hands-on systems engineering, product management, and startup leadership. He has built and operated large-scale storage and cloud systems at Google and now designs Rust and AWS-based backends at Block, bringing deep expertise in object storage, high-throughput workloads, and cost-conscious architecture. As a co-founder and principal architect of Fugue, he launched early cloud automation prototypes and helped design a domain-specific language for cloud infrastructure, pairing engineering with documentation and open-source work. Dominic’s background includes building resilient, serverless systems for enterprise media clients and long experience with JVM-based messaging platforms, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and “toil-free” operations. He also takes unconventional career turns—sabbatical for injury recovery and cycling training—underscoring deliberate career pacing and continuous learning.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Political Science, B.S. & Minor, Technical Communication, Magna Cum Laude, BS, Political Science, B.S. & Minor, Technical Communication, Magna Cum Laude at Shepherd UniversityProduct Management, Product Management, Product Management, Product Management at General Assembly
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Github Skills (81)
lightning-network10
google-cloud10
client-library10
modular10
rust10
lightning10
bitcoin10
js-client10
cryptocurrency9
aws9
google-cloud-storage9
vcenter9
storage9
nodejs9
data-access8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
morgante/tfjson
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Terraform plan file to JSON
Contributions:1 PR, 6 comments in 4 years 1 month
to-jsonplanterraformterraform-providerjson
domZippilli/gcs-audit-log-smart-archive
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Use GCS audit logs to make decisions about storage class.
Contributions:26 PRs, 79 pushes, 16 branches in 7 months
gcpdecisionsauditgcsstorage
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