Zach Hill
Chief Technology Officer at Anchore
Goleta, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Hill is a pragmatic, hands-on technology leader and CTO with 12+ years building cloud-native and container-focused platforms from research prototypes to production SaaS. He rose through Anchore’s ranks from principal engineer to chief architect and now CTO, driving distributed analytics, runtime coordination, and deep container inspection across AWS services. Zach blends systems-level expertise in storage, virtualization, and cloud APIs with relentless operational focus—he still dives into code, testing, and input validation (including contributions to the skopeo project around image registry tooling). He has a strong track record integrating storage systems (Ceph, RiakCS) and making container ecosystems production ready, plus academic grounding in distributed systems from UVA. Based in Goleta, CA, he excels at simplifying complex architectures into efficient, user-valued solutions while building teams that ship reliably.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science and Mathematics at Hendrix CollegeMasters of Computer Science Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
go10
testing10
dockers9
docker9
error-handling8
command-line-interface8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
containers/skopeo
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 27 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `skopeo` tool. Their work included refactoring the code to simplify logic, adding the "list-tags" command and writing tests for its functionality. The user was also focused on input validation and ensuring compatibility of the tool, using the docker and testing package.
signingregistriesdockerimage-processingharbor
zhill/enterprise-docs
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Source for the Enteprise Docs static site
Contributions:111 pushes, 88 branches in 2 years 2 months
gitbookstatic-sitestatic-site-generator
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