Greg Zapp
Staff Engineer at StepWise
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarGreg Zapp is a Staff Engineer and founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building reliable, scalable platform and SRE-focused systems from startups to enterprise acquisitions. He has led platform teams, raised uptime to 99.9%, and automated front-end and deployment workflows to move organizations from manual to high-frequency, hands-off releases. Greg built collaborative editing backends (YJS CRDTs), performance programs that cut editor latency by 72%, and drove SOC 2 + HIPAA-ready security controls—combining deep systems knowledge with product-facing UX improvements. He has a strong track record in automation and developer experience, from Rundeck build/distribution and Docs automation to creating per-feature environments that removed QA bottlenecks. An active contributor to open source testing and docs (notably improving fetch-mock tests and automating Rundeck docs deployment with Node/VuePress/S3), he blends engineering leadership with practical tooling. Based in San Antonio, he pairs founder-level initiative with enterprise-grade delivery and audit-ready security practices.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
rundeck10
javascript10
testing10
test-framework10
vuepress10
nodejs10
deployment-automation10
documentation10
aws-s39
algolia-search9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
ssh6
php6
pecl6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
rundeck/docs
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Rundeck documentation
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:7 reviews, 280 commits, 99 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on automating and improving the Rundeck documentation build and deployment processes. They implemented a deployment script using Node.js to build and sync documentation to an S3 bucket. Furthermore, they updated VuePress configurations, including enabling Algolia search, to enhance the documentation's usability. The user also contributed to documentation content by renaming, updating, and re-organizing sidebars and navigation links.
rundeck
wheresrhys/fetch-mock
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Mock http requests made using fetch
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on improving the testing aspects of the `fetch-mock` library. Their contributions involved adding new tests to cover various scenarios, including those related to proxy responses and readable response bodies. They also fixed a linting issue and refactored existing tests. These changes suggest a focus on increasing test coverage and ensuring the reliability of the library.
http-requestsmock-servermockinghttp-mockfetch
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