Larry Zarou
Senior Director, Strategy & Transformation
City of Albany, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Zarou is a seasoned software leader with 12+ years of experience who currently serves as Senior Director of Strategy & Transformation at Rithum, after progressing through engineering and management roles within the same organization. He combines hands-on engineering skills in Ruby, Java, JavaScript, SQL and infrastructure tooling like Chef, Git, and automated deployment pipelines with strategic oversight of transformation initiatives. Larry has a strong background in DevOps and configuration management — evidenced by contributions to the redisio Chef cookbook that improved sentinel/redis configuration and added test-kitchen and serverspec validation. Based in Albany, NY, he bridges technical execution and program-level delivery, driving environment automation, CI/CD, and observability practices. Known for translating complex technical requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions, he also brings practical SEO and web development experience from earlier roles. His career trajectory reflects a rare combination of deep operational expertise and long-term leadership growth within a single company.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Technology Information Studies Business, Bachelor of Science Information Technology Information Studies Business at University at Albany
Github Skills (11)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
cookbook10
docker10
dockers10
terraform9
terraformer9
test-kitchen9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
redis7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/redisio
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Development repository for the redisio cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:40 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Larry focused on improving the configuration management aspects of the redisio cookbook. They added attributes to control whether sentinel and redis configurations are managed by Chef and refactored the providers to use these new attributes. They also implemented basic test-kitchen and server spec tests to validate service and port status. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to fix issues such as debian 6.0.x failures, and to accommodate the 2.2.0 release.
cookbookredisredisioredisearchchef-resource
commercehub-oss/sous_chef
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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