Eric Zimanyi
Software Engineer at Sigma Computing (hiring!)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Zimanyi is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and hardening cloud-native CI/CD and orchestration systems, currently contributing at Sigma Computing in New York. He spent four years at Google and earlier work at athenahealth, focusing on backend services, build pipelines, and deployment tooling. Eric is a prolific contributor to Spinnaker’s ecosystem—improving integrations with Jenkins, Google Cloud Build, GCS, Kubernetes, and the Spinnaker API and UI—to make releases more reliable and observable. His strengths lie at the intersection of DevOps and backend engineering: fixing race conditions, reducing flaky tests, and streamlining artifact and bake workflows for multi-cloud delivery. With a PhD-level scientific background in physical chemistry, he brings rigorous problem decomposition and data-driven troubleshooting to complex distributed systems. Colleagues would note his knack for quietly improving reliability and developer experience across large open-source platforms.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (63)
continuous-deployment10
api-rest10
caching10
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
javascript10
artifact10
github10
back-end-development10
redis10
apidoc10
groovy10
api-design10
artifactory10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/clouddriver
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 46 reviews, 234 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the clouddriver project, focusing on enhancements and fixes related to Kubernetes. Their work involved adding support for deploying container images selected by digest, handling manifests with generateName using create operations, and addressing stability issues in stateful and daemon sets. They also made code style improvements and corrected potential race conditions, improving the project's performance and reliability.
gcpproviderscloudcloud-providersazure
spinnaker/halyard
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
A tool for configuring, installing, and updating Spinnaker
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 69 commits, 201 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the Spinnaker platform. Their work focused on enabling Rosco integration for local Git installations, fixing directory configurations, and addressing deployment failures related to artifact availability. They also addressed version validation issues, and modified the installation and deployment scripts, along with improving error messages. They integrated and managed services like GCB and Webhooks, demonstrating a clear focus on improving the deployment and integration capabilities of Spinnaker.
installingupdatingspinnaker
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