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 (175)
postgresql10
python10
deserialization10
cpp10
ros10
robotics10
cdr10
stolon10
linux10
golang10
swift10
database-migration10
rust10
database-migrations10
database10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
openj/core
Mar 2011 - Jan 2016
abandoned, please check out https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 4 years 11 months
testingfixsubmit
gravitational/stolon-app
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Opinionated stolon Gravity application
Contributions:31 releases, 241 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 1 month
stolon
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