Zach Abrahamson
Production Engineer at Meta
Greater Richmond Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Abrahamson is a Production Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems across AWS, enterprise, and large-scale SaaS environments. He combines hands-on development skills in Python and Go with deep operational expertise in automation (Chef, Ansible), Kubernetes, and observability tools like Splunk and Jenkins to keep services reliable and secure. Zach has worked in high-impact roles at Meta and AWS and led cloud and Kubernetes efforts at Capital One, bringing both strategic architecture and day-to-day production rigor. He contributes to notable open-source work on the aws-ebs-csi-driver, improving test coverage and implementing snapshot handling—evidence of his focus on quality and distributed storage resilience. Based in the Greater Richmond area, he pairs advanced degrees from Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech with a practitioner’s emphasis on pragmatic automation and continuous testing.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Technology, Master of Science, Information Technology at Virginia TechBachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at Radford UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
aws10
aws-ebs10
controller10
amazon-ebs10
csi10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Apr 2019 - May 2019
CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on testing and refactoring the AWS EBS CSI driver, with a heavy emphasis on improving test coverage and fixing vet errors. They implemented and refined various test cases within the controller and node packages. Furthermore, the user contributed to the implementation of the ListSnapshots function, ensuring the correct handling of snapshot retrieval and pagination.
amazonk8s-sig-awsamazon-ebsamazon-awscsi-driver
zachs-org/dockerpy
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:61 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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