Zach Swanson
Staff Engineer at Air Space Intelligence
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Swanson is a Staff Engineer based in Boston with eight years of cloud and platform engineering experience and a longer history of systems work from an Army technical and leadership background. He specializes in Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability—having built multi-region GKE platforms at Wayfair supporting thousands of apps and driven migrations that saved six-figure annual compute costs without developer disruption. At Careforth he accelerated delivery from 12 to 4 weeks, led HiTrust certification work, and designed novel Grafana Loki/Tempo deployments that earned a guest blog feature. Comfortable operating in high-pressure, mission-focused environments, he blends pragmatic automation with cross-team consensus-building and has presented platform work at KubeCon. His combination of military operational rigor and hands-on cloud-native architecture makes him effective at turning chaotic, large-scale problems into repeatable, low-touch solutions.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at United States Military Academy at West Point
Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
grafana10
terraform10
docker-desktop10
security10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
argoproj10
monitoring10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
pagerduty10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zswanson/boston-food-truck-lambda
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
AWS Lambda that queries the City of Boston food truck schedule, outputs to slack
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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zswanson/ara-docker
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 6 pushes in 9 months
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