Sander Van Zoest
Senior Director, DevOps at Locus Robotics
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSander Van Zoest is a seasoned technologist, founder, investor and advisor with over 30 years of experience building and operating large-scale platforms across startups and Fortune 100s. Currently Senior Director of DevOps at Locus Robotics and founder of the 1K+ member San Diego DevOps community, he specializes in translating business objectives into scalable, reliable systems and embedding lean DevOps practices that enable daily deployments. His background spans HIPAA-compliant, event-driven healthcare platforms, global data center deployments, and multimedia ecosystems from embedded devices to desktop and mobile, with two IPOs and multiple acquisitions on his résumé. An active open-source contributor and code reviewer, he has improved test reliability for widely used infrastructure cookbooks, reflecting a practical focus on maintainability and automation. Known for turning around struggling engineering efforts—most notably scaling a virtual worlds startup into a top-40 social game acquired by Disney—he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and a bias for measurable outcomes.
23 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (8)
chef-client10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
serverspec10
apache10
testing10
chef-infra6
rubygems6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apache2
Apr 2014 - Apr 2017
Development repository for the apache2 cookbook
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 231 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sander primarily focused on migrating the Apache2 cookbook's testing framework from Minitest to Serverspec. Their contributions involved writing and refactoring Serverspec tests to ensure the correct behavior of various Apache modules, including SSL, include, PHP5, and CGI. The user also added tests to verify the functionality of standard Apache modules and made adjustments to accommodate Apache 2.4 support. These changes improved the reliability and maintainability of the cookbook's testing suite.
cookbookapache2chef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
svanzoest/js-workflow-project
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 PRs, 58 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 2 months
javascriptworkflows
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