Ken Zyma
Staff MLOps Engineer at Apptio, an IBM Company
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKen Zyma is a Staff MLOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive systems and optimization platforms. He specializes in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, big data ingestion, and cost-conscious architectures that process petabyte-scale billing and pricing data for SaaS products. Previously he led AIML platform teams at Vanguard and solved combinatorial optimization problems for clients like Amtrak and Boeing at Quintiq, bringing a rare mix of algorithmic rigor and production engineering. Ken has a Master’s in Computer Science with substantial Operations Research work and published research on metaheuristics, which informs his passion for modeling and algorithm development. He’s driven large modernization efforts—replatforming to Kubernetes, enabling FedRAMP-ready stacks, and delivering multi-billion-record pipelines—while also spearheading FinOps initiatives that saved millions. Outside of core engineering, he’s shipped a real-time multiplayer mobile game and volunteers on education-focused web projects, showing a creative, product-minded approach to technical problems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Recording Arts Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Recording Arts Technology/Technician at Lebanon Valley CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (9)
aws-sdk9
google-play-games8
google-play8
sdk8
aws8
python7
android-gui2
hex2
android1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kzyma/blocksWorld_AgentJ
Nov 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:52 commits in 5 months
kzyma/MMKP_Heuristics
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 10 pushes in 5 months
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