Zach Reyes
Process Engineer at Jedson Engineering
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Reyes is a process engineer with seven years of hands-on experience optimizing paint and polymer manufacturing, currently driving process improvements at Jedson Engineering after an eight-year tenure at Yenkin Majestic Paint Corp. Trained in chemical and environmental engineering at The Ohio State University, he pairs practical plant knowledge with a methodical approach to unit operations and process control. Beyond the plant floor, Zach contributes to major open-source networking projects—helping harden Envoy and gRPC through bug fixes, test automation, and CI updates—which reflects a strong aptitude for backend systems and reliability engineering. His cross-domain work bridges industrial process stability and software test infrastructure, revealing a knack for translating operational rigor into automated validation. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he brings a pragmatic, data-driven mindset to complex production and software reliability challenges.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
c-language10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
http10
cicd10
rpc10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
fuzzing10
cloud-native10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-go
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 2664 reviews, 103 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Zach's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the gRPC-Go implementation by addressing specific functionality within the HTTP/2 server and related components. They implemented checks for POST method usage, fixed potential race conditions, and incorporated support for new features like a custom load balancer. Their work included changes to the server's handling of headers and requests, indicating involvement in backend logic and API design.
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envoyproxy/envoy
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:361 reviews, 32 commits, 46 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on improving the Envoy proxy's functionality and reliability through bug fixes and enhanced test coverage. Their contributions include addressing OSS Fuzz crashes by validating configurations related to RBAC. Furthermore, the user added support for metadata frames to the HTTP/2 frame utility, increasing coverage in fuzz tests. The user also refactored and expanded testing of the health checker implementation and added validations, including for admission control and secrets, to the project.
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