Jeff Zellner
Director Of Engineering at Foxglove
Missoula, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Zellner is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building cloud-native platforms and teams that reliably ship at scale, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Foxglove. His career spans startups and enterprise roles—leading platform initiatives at Twilio, NetApp, DigitalOcean, and FireHydrant—where he focused on service mesh, identity, autoscaling, and Kubernetes-based PaaS. Known for turning operational complexity into predictable delivery, he blends hands-on platform engineering with hiring, capacity planning, and organizational development. Based in Missoula, Montana, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach informed by early work in .NET, Django, and running Mono in production. Colleagues rely on him to stabilize fast-moving engineering orgs and mature their infrastructure practices. Despite a compact GitHub presence, his track record shows deep production experience across distributed systems and developer platforms.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering at Drexel University
Github Skills (200)
firewall10
file-format10
security10
deserialization10
ssh10
robotics10
stolon10
charts10
linux10
golang10
database10
rbac10
json10
kubernetes10
key-value-store10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/stolon-app
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Opinionated stolon gravity/kubernetes app.
Contributions:31 releases, 241 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 1 month
gravitykubernetesstolon
sofuture/tfig
Sep 2011 - Sep 2019
Terminal figures
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 8 years 1 month
terminaltuifigurescli
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