Zach Aller
Staff Software Engineer at Also Creative Inc
Minot, North Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolZach Aller is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems and developer workflows from Minot, North Dakota. He has led SRE and platform engineering efforts at enterprises like Bayer and Iteris, designing CI/CD, multi-cloud networking, observability, and secure GitOps operators while improving performance of critical APIs. At Intuit he advances platform reliability and at Argo he contributes to progressive delivery for Kubernetes, including Istio traffic routing and plugin support. His open-source work includes substantive backend contributions to the widely used tediousjs/tedious Node TDS driver, adding parameterization and type-casting support for complex SQL Server types. Comfortable writing in Golang, NodeJS and C#, he blends hands-on coding with architecture and cross-team leadership, and has a knack for turning complex operational requirements into automated, declarative tooling.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of North Dakota
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Github Skills (14)
istio10
parameterization10
tds10
kubernetes10
nodejs10
javascript10
go10
datatypes10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
devops9
plugin9
sql9
documentation8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-rollouts
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:901 reviews, 131 commits, 957 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of the Argo Rollouts project, focusing on enhancing its functionality and stability. They made changes related to traffic routing, specifically the Istio integration, and also added support for plugins. The user also addressed issues with the Kubernetes event handling. Furthermore, the user made contributions to testing and documentation.
argo-rolloutsbluegreencanaryprogressivecontour
tediousjs/tedious
Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
Node TDS module for connecting to SQL Server databases.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on enhancing the `tediousjs/tedious` repository by adding parameterization support for various data types, including BigInt, Float, and UniqueIdentifierN, as well as Text. They modified the code to correctly handle type casting for parameterized values. The user's contributions involved modifying core data type handling and testing components to ensure proper functionality for new features and edge cases. Their work aimed to expand the functionality of the TDS module for connecting to SQL Server databases.
sqlserversql-servertdsjavascriptsql
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