Zach Brown
VP Of Engineering at Energy Substantiation Partners, LLC
Galena, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Brown is a seasoned VP of Engineering and full-stack developer with 13+ years building scalable back-end systems, SRE platforms, and networked infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. He combines deep systems and networking expertise—from BGP/MPLS and SD-WAN to Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker—with hands-on Go, C/C++, Python and Elasticsearch development for high-throughput services. Zach has led engineering and security teams at companies ranging from fintech and biotech to privacy and blockchain startups, often owning both architecture and runbook-level operational reliability. Known for instrumenting telemetry at scale (Elasticsearch/Kibana) and automating complex network fleets, he bridges the gap between low-level packet/OS tuning and modern cloud-native stacks. Based in Galena, Ohio, he pairs 20+ years of Linux/Unix administration with practical virtualization and SDN experience, and frequently moves between coding, SRE, and strategic engineering leadership.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Software Defined Networking, Software Defined Networking at CourseraBachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (137)
python10
vagrantfile10
cryptocurrency10
vms10
wallet10
javascript10
wordpress10
electron-react10
trellis10
wordpress-api10
vagrant10
cli10
peer10
bitcoin10
wp-cli10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Chia-Network/core-registry-cadt-ui
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Core Registry CADT UI
Contributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 95 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Chia-Network/Climate-Wallet
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Climate Wallet that integrates with the Chia Wallet
Contributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 131 PRs in 1 year 9 months
chia-blockchain
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