Trent Zock-robbins
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTrent Zock-robbins is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building and operating backend and DevOps systems across cloud platforms. He brings deep Python expertise, a background teaching Python, and hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Flask, Postgres, Airflow, and infrastructure automation tools like Ansible. At Pinterest he has improved deploy systems (Teletraan), adding SOX-compliance features, hardening logging to scrub secrets, and Dockerizing tests—demonstrating both compliance-minded engineering and practical reliability work. Comfortable in both engineering and stakeholder-facing roles, he pairs software requirements and project planning skills with day-to-day ETL and pipeline management. His analytical-chemistry degree signals a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving that underpins his engineering judgment.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Analytical Chemistry conc. Analytical Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Analytical Chemistry conc. Analytical Biochemistry at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (27)
java10
javas10
api-design9
mysql9
restful-api9
api-rest9
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
devops9
database-design9
rest-api9
docker8
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/teletraan
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Teletraan is Pinterest's deploy system.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:248 reviews, 79 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Trent primarily focused on enhancing the deploy system. Their contributions include adding features related to SOX compliance, such as tagging and enforcing build source restrictions. They also made database schema updates, fixed typos in the codebase, and improved the system's robustness by scrubbing sensitive information from logs. In addition, they worked on Dockerizing unit tests and addressing abstract host problems.
dockerpinterest
noisebridge/hackersinresidence
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:106 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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