Gérard Zapf
Principal Solution Engineer at Cloudflare
Oberteuringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorGérard Zapf is a Principal Solution Engineer with a strong track record in cybersecurity, AI and product leadership, blending over a decade of hands-on technical work with strategic impact across global enterprises. He specializes in designing Zero Trust architectures and consolidating fragmented security stacks into scalable, high-performance platforms that align security with business goals. Gérard moves fluidly between product, engineering and operations—keeping a hands-on approach that ensures solutions are both cutting-edge and deployable. His background spans roles from R&D cyber engineering to leading security teams, giving him a rare end-to-end view of risk, implementation and governance. An active contributor to the Home Assistant ecosystem, he’s improved CI/CD and add-on reliability (including Let’s Encrypt and MariaDB), reflecting a practical focus on automation and developer experience. Based in Oberteuringen, Germany, he is known for translating curiosity about emerging tech into measurable optimisation and coaching cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (18)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
addin9
configuration-management9
home-assistant9
addon9
script9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
scripting7
docker-compose7
iot7
automation7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/addons
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
:heavy_plus_sign: Docker add-ons for Home Assistant
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 15 PRs, 47 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gérard focused on automating and improving the Home Assistant add-ons build and deployment process, particularly for the Let's Encrypt and MariaDB add-ons. This involved the adoption of the Bashio library, simplifying configuration management, and ensuring compatibility across different add-ons. They also addressed documentation issues, implemented fixes, and updated the CI/CD pipeline. Furthermore, the user made changes to multiple add-ons, highlighting their impact on the overall project's consistency and functionality.
add-onssignassistantdockerhome-assistant
Zapfmeister/hassio-addons
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
:heavy_plus_sign: Docker add-ons for Hass.io
Contributions:9 PRs, 38 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
add-onssigndockerhassons
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