Theodore Zilist
Senior Software Engineer, Rust at Tubi
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTheodore Zilist is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, full‑stack systems and leading engineering teams from Seattle. He specializes in Rust, Go, Elixir and modern JavaScript, and has repeatedly architected multi‑cluster Kubernetes deployments with Istio service mesh, mTLS, and federated routing for global reliability. Ted has built production Rust microservices (REST and gRPC) with tokio, sqlx/diesel, axum and tower, and operationalized them with Terraform, Bazel builds, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling across GCP and Azure. He combines hands‑on coding (including a WASM Rust integration for Envoy) with platform design—creating common middleware, testing harnesses, and billing/connector services that scale. Notably, his background in experimental chemical engineering and lab automation informs a pragmatic, measurement‑driven approach to system reliability and performance tuning. He is active on GitHub and writes about engineering practices, reflecting a continual emphasis on learning and sharing.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry at Loyola University ChicagoChemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
German, Hebrew
Github Skills (179)
api-management10
compile-time10
testing10
security10
hyper10
consul10
contour10
istio10
microservices10
service-mesh10
javascript10
async10
fault-injection10
sql10
proxies10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tzilist/Dev-Sandbox
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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