Zach Bernstein
Senior Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolZach Bernstein is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Chicago with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms and developer tooling. He has led large-scale AWS account migrations and standardized Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps practices to support hundreds of teams and thousands of data pipelines without platform downtime. At MassMutual he drove multitenancy, observability with OpenTelemetry, and inner-source tooling adoption that cut maintenance and dependency conflicts by ~90% while delivering significant cost savings. Comfortable both automating infrastructure at scale and mentoring engineers, he pairs a data-science background with pragmatic platform design. Outside work he balances engineering focus with a creative streak—he’s a devoted origamist—bringing curiosity and craft to complex operational problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Data Science at University of VermontSemester Abroad Data Science, Semester Abroad Data Science at Victoria University of WellingtonGraduate Certificate Database Management & Business Intelligence, Graduate Certificate Database Management & Business Intelligence at Boston University
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Github contributions (5)
zebernst/synology-csi-talos
May 2022 - Mar 2025
CSI driver for Synology NAS with support for Talos Linux
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 11 months
zebernst/zebernst.github.io
Dec 2018 - May 2023
Jekyll repository for personal website and portfolio
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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