Rob Zienert
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRob Zienert is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and resilient backend services, currently working at Netflix in San Jose. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Spinnaker and Terraform ecosystems—contributing to core projects like Orca, Front50, Gate, and the AWS provider for Terraform—helping teams scale orchestration, storage, and auth systems. Rob has led release and infrastructure engineering teams, introduced immutable infrastructure practices (Ansible, Packer, Terraform) and production-grade automation at multiple companies, and chaired Spinnaker’s Technical Oversight Committee. Known for pragmatic engineering, he blends backend and DevOps skills with occasional front-end contributions, and quietly prefers tacos and focused, non-consulting roles.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Entertainment Business, Bachelor, Entertainment Business at Full Sail University
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Github Skills (64)
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javascript10
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apidoc10
redis10
api-design10
groovy10
restful-api10
git-repository10
cloud-infrastructure10
ui-design10
terraform10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/kork
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
Kork provides some basic service building blocks for Spinnaker.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 releases, 40 reviews, 144 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the `kork` repository, which provides building blocks for Spinnaker services, by adding a new feature to add a user origin to AuthenticatedRequest and adding functional interface delegate between Jedis and Dynomite, Jackson subtype configurer. Further contributions include adding Jedis/Dynomite client factories, adding a scan command facade, and instrumenting the Jedis client and pool, indicating an emphasis on backend logic and database interactions. The user's work enhanced authentication, and improved Redis interactions.
javabuilding-blocksspinnaker
spinnaker/orca
Oct 2016 - May 2021
Orchestration engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:225 releases, 62 reviews, 382 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the backend orchestration engine, specifically improving pipeline execution. They added functionality to retrieve and list the latest pipeline executions and to incorporate stage-level timeouts. The user also fixed several bugs in the Jenkins and cloud provider integration layers, increasing reliability and addressing potential edge cases. Additional work included refactoring the codebase for improved stability and adding basic template-less configuration support.
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