Michael Z
Staff Cloud Engineer at Haliburton Trail Riders (HTR)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Z is a Staff Cloud Engineer with a decade of experience designing and automating scalable cloud platforms for financial services and enterprise clients. He brings deep DevOps and network engineering expertise—spanning Azure, AKS/OpenShift, Terraform/OpenTofu, Vault, and configuration tooling like Chef, Ansible, and InSpec—paired with hands-on scripting in Python, Go, PowerShell, and Bash. At Avanade he progressed from analyst to technical lead, delivering cloud-native infrastructure and automation patterns now applied at RBC. His background in enterprise networking at BlackBerry and operational discipline from service in the Canadian Armed Forces inform a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to complex systems. Outside work he channels the same team-oriented, endurance mindset into ultimate Frisbee, trail building with a regional non-profit, and personal tinkering projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario College Advanced Diploma Internet Communications Technology, Ontario College Advanced Diploma Internet Communications Technology at Sheridan CollegeR.H. King AcademyEconomics, Economics at Queen's University
English
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Github Skills (127)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mzarglis/DNS-Audit
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
mzarglis/rhel7-baseline
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:197 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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