Jacob Zaval
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJacob Zaval is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with nine years of experience building reliable services at Microsoft after nearly a decade as an Apple Mac Genius. He specializes in backend engineering and infrastructure automation, demonstrated by open-source contributions to the well-known Chef Infra project where he improved plist resource behavior and added robust unit tests. At Microsoft he progressed through service and software engineering roles into senior engineering, blending hands-on debugging and production service ownership with software development. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, comfortable navigating both systems-level issues and higher-level product deliverables.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
testing10
plist10
configuration-management10
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
ruby10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the `chef/chef` repository by modifying plist-related resources. Their work focused on refining the plist functionality, including adding initial values, correcting syntax errors, and removing redundant code. Furthermore, the user also developed and refined unit tests, confirming the plist resource's correct behavior. Their contributions indicate a strong understanding of Chef's resource models and testing methodologies within a Ruby-based infrastructure automation framework.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
microsoft/macos-cookbook
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
A Chef cookbook used to provision macOS
Contributions:2 releases, 39 reviews, 501 commits in 5 years 5 months
vagrantcookbookrecipeprovisioncookbooks
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