Zach Dunn
Senior Director Of Cloud Operations
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Dunn is a seasoned cloud and platform engineering leader with over a decade of experience building SaaS platforms and autonomous, aligned teams. Currently Senior Director of Cloud Operations at Tanium, he previously led Appian’s Kubernetes-based cloud platform, earning multiple compliance certifications (SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP Moderate, HiTRUST, PCI) that enabled new market entry. He has a track record of reducing costs and operational complexity—at Optoro he drove a migration and cost optimization that cut infrastructure spend dramatically while maintaining service quality. Hands-on across the stack, Zach contributes to open-source projects like the Plume federated blogging app, with a focus on PWA standards and modern web manifests. Based in Washington, DC, he blends practical engineering, security-conscious platform strategy, and fiscal discipline to deliver production-grade cloud platforms. His background in liberal arts and philosophy informs a thoughtful, systems-level approach to team and platform design.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at Saint Mary's College of MarylandMA Liberal Arts, MA Liberal Arts at Saint John's College
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
activitypub10
rust10
blog-engine10
rocket10
federation9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Plume-org/Plume
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on adding and updating the web application manifest for the Plume blogging platform. This involved modifying routes, templates, and core application logic to include necessary metadata like name, description, and display settings. They also updated nodeinfo and implemented categories for the web manifest, demonstrating a focus on Progressive Web App (PWA) functionality and adhering to current web standards. Furthermore, the user made updates to the post model and related activities.
pixelfedrustblog-enginedockerdiaspora
zcdunn/inventory
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:272 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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