Zach Wasserman
Cofounder Technology Evangelist at The Linux Foundation
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolZach Wasserman is a cofounder and Technology Evangelist with 14 years of experience building scalable, security-focused infrastructure and open-source tooling, best known for co-creating osquery at Facebook and leading its stewardship on the Linux Foundation TSC. He helped design osquery from its earliest days and has driven Fleet’s evolution into a production-ready platform used by companies like Fastly and Gusto to simplify IT and security operations across macOS, Linux, Windows, ChromeOS, cloud, and OT environments. Technically hands-on, Zach has deep Go and backend expertise—contributing fixes and features to projects like Apache Thrift and implementing high-scale Fleet servers that moved deployments from thousands to hundreds of thousands of hosts. His background blends product leadership (as CTO and founder roles) with DevOps and CI/CD automation, database and logging improvements, and pragmatic security engineering. An active open-source maintainer and prolific contributor, he pairs community-facing evangelism and training with direct code-level improvements that reduce operational complexity. Based in Squamish, BC, he repeatedly translates research-grade instrumentation into dependable, scalable systems used in production.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (60)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kolide/fleet
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
A flexible control server for osquery fleets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:18 releases, 31 reviews, 367 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach's commits primarily focused on adding and improving the core functionality and security features of the osquery fleet server. The contributions include implementing request logging, handling panics in request handlers, and adding methods for database connection management. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate enhancements to the logging system, including setting default log levels and adding location data to log entries. The user also improved general error handling, implemented a new API token to enable UI access, and added several features and fixes related to authentication and authorization.
host-instrumentationmacadminsecurityinfosecosquery
fleetdm/fleet
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1335 reviews, 755 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on improving the Fleet control tool's query functionality, including fixing quiet flag handling and adding a pretty-printing option. They also implemented support for managing users, including creating new users with admin privileges and also the user login and logout functionality. Furthermore, they contributed to building out the CI/CD tooling, adding automation for the release process.
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