Scott Zahn
Sr. Integration Engineer
Belmont, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Zahn is a senior integration engineer with 13 years of infrastructure and operations experience who transitioned from designing cloud architectures to optimizing procurement workflows for pharmacies. Based in Belmont, Michigan, he combines deep hands-on expertise in Linux, virtualization, and automation with practical cost-saving instincts honed by projects that cut licensing and operational expenses. At HarperCollins and prior roles he led large-scale environments and migrations, and at SpendMend he now applies that systems-thinking to healthcare integrations and procurement efficiencies. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he extended the popular rsnapshot backup utility with flexible command execution and improved its testing and documentation, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic enhancements that help operators.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA.CPSC, Computer Science, Business, BA.CPSC, Computer Science, Business at Calvin University
Github Skills (8)
rsync10
backup10
perl10
testing9
command-line7
cli7
documentation7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rsnapshot/rsnapshot
Aug 2012 - Sep 2014
a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the rsnapshot tool by adding a new `backup_exec` resource. This included implementing the ability to execute commands during the backup process, along with documentation and tests. The user also improved the testing framework for the added feature and merged changes from the master branch. Their contributions center around extending the functionality of the backup tool through the addition of flexible and configurable command execution.
rsnapshotrsyncperlbackup
biblegateway/aws_inventory
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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