Josh Zhang
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Team Lead at Stack Overflow
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Zhang is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and team lead with a decade-plus career building and automating mission-critical infrastructure for finance, education, and large-scale web platforms. He leads edge traffic and abuse-mitigation at Stack Overflow, blending deep systems administration (AD, VMware, RHEL/SUSE, Windows Server) with software-first automation using Python, PowerShell, Go, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and CI tooling. Josh has run major platform migrations at Bank of America and designed district-wide identity and configuration management for one of Texas’s largest school systems, demonstrating both large-project program management and hands-on engineering. He prioritizes scalable automation to reduce human error and accelerate recovery, and is comfortable operating hybrid on-prem/cloud environments and defending services from DDoS and bot traffic. Colleagues rely on him to turn operational pain points into reliable, auditable processes and tooling that make teams more effective.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese
Stackoverflow
127reputation
1kreached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (16)
infrastructure-as-code10
go10
dns10
yum6
linux6
ansible6
redis5
dotnet5
stackexchange5
monitoring4
elasticsearch4
sql3
bosun2
puppet2
devops1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jzhang-sre/auto_ac_ansible
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 days
DNSControl/dnscontrol
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
Infrastructure as code for DNS!
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years
dnsinfrastructure-as-codegodnscontrol
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