Zach Rowe
DevOps Engineer at ECS
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Rowe is a seasoned DevOps engineer with 16 years in software and ten years focused on production DevOps for federal and commercial environments. He combines full-stack Ruby on Rails and JavaScript development experience with hands-on cloud automation—provisioning and orchestrating environments using Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Cloudamatic, and custom tooling like Mu. Zach has built resilient CI/CD pipelines, blue/green deployments, and containerized migrations, and has integrated systems such as Kafka and Elasticsearch for mission-critical observability and data seeding. He holds multiple AWS and Chef certifications and has contributed front-end and back-end fixes to the open Concerto digital signage project, showing a willingness to ship user-facing improvements. Based in Virginia, he pairs deep automation skills with practical mentoring and a track record of improving disaster recovery, security, and test automation across regulated systems.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (10)
html10
rails10
front-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
erb10
css9
javascript8
digital-signage8
template-engine7
templater7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
concerto/concerto
Mar 2010 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 357 commits, 18 PRs in 12 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zach's commits focused on enhancing the Concerto Digital Signage System, specifically by resolving issues related to content submission and user information display. They made updates to both the frontend, including the addition of a grid/table switcher and styling of form elements, and backend, specifically in the area of content creation and template management. Additionally, they addressed user-interface issues related to displaying user names and details in various views and added logic for managing screen templates.
bulletin-boardconcertosignagedigital-signage
zr2d2/smartrack
Mar 2015 - May 2024
ruby code for harvesting WMATA Smartrip data
Contributions:9 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 9 years 3 months
cdrharvestingrubysketchupwmata
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