Summary
Michael Zarate is a Technical Account Manager at Google with a decade of hands-on engineering experience across DevOps, SRE, and cloud consulting. He combines practical product delivery at government and enterprise scale—with roles at the VA, Dell, and Levvel—with deepening expertise in cloud-native tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, and automated CI/CD in AWS and GitLab. A Google-certified Cloud Architect and Associate Cloud Engineer, he’s built a serverless portfolio site with a fully automated AWS pipeline that showcases his applied learning. Michael’s background in the US Army managing secure communications and a Computer Systems Engineering degree give him a disciplined, security-minded approach to infrastructure and operations. He’s equally comfortable advising stakeholders on delivery strategy as he is implementing the automation to make it repeatable and auditable. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigor, consultancy experience, and continuous learning to cloud transformation projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State University