Michael Zappa
Technical Program Manager 2 at Microsoft
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Zappa is a Technical Program Manager with 6 years of industry experience and a long history of coding that began in middle school. He now helps Microsoft engage as an open-source community partner across the CNCF ecosystem, bringing hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CNI, and containerd from prior roles. Previously he led migrations from Mesos/Marathon to Kubernetes and co-designed a tenant-isolation CNI while managing engineering teams and mentoring engineers in networking and container fundamentals. His background includes full‑stack development at SIG and enterprise software roles, grounded in systems and network operations from nearly eight years as a US Marine Corps Technology NCO. Comfortable translating low-level networking constraints into program-level strategy, he blends operator discipline with open-source advocacy to drive pragmatic, secure cloud-native integrations.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (53)
linux10
plugin9
nix9
javascript9
nixos9
open-source9
buffer8
nixpkgs8
rcs8
terminal-emulator8
husky7
gnome-shell7
statusline7
emacs7
neovim7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
michzappa/.emacs.d
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
many shaved yaks
Contributions:2 PRs, 380 pushes, 28 branches in 11 months
emacsmelpaspacemacs
michzappa/arch-cfg
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
xfce4, xmonad and i3 full system configuration for arch and package list.
Contributions:2 PRs, 275 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
xfce4gentoolinuxarchlinuxxmonad
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