Zach Zundel
Production Engineer at Facebook
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZach Zundel is a production engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems, currently on primary on-call for Facebook’s Web Foundation monolith and incident response for major site-wide outages. He combines deep reliability engineering skills—detection, escalation, remediation, and post-incident review—with hands-on work improving continuous deployment pipelines and consolidating deployments to reduce operational overhead. His background in bioengineering and CS and long-term contributions to SynBioHub and the SBOL standard show a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between synthetic biology tooling and backend infrastructure. Past internships and projects demonstrate a pattern of eliminating fragile automation, deploying pragmatic control planes, and shipping sidecar remediation tools that prevent fleet-wide cascades. Colleagues know him for both breaking systems in creative ways and restoring them faster, and for mentoring peers through on-call onboarding and runbook improvements. He brings a practical, systems-first mindset to reliability challenges and a knack for turning messy operational problems into repeatable, automated solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahAssociate of Arts (AA), General Studies + French, Associate of Arts (AA), General Studies + French at Weber State University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (135)
synthetic-biology10
web-application10
messenger10
react-native-app10
synthetic10
cryptocurrency10
computational-biology10
collaboration10
wallet10
genetic10
mattermost10
webapp10
golang10
monorepo10
biology10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ColeyKursar/inga
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Data manager for Inga herbivory data from Coley/Kursar lab
Contributions:4 PRs, 284 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
data-managerlab
SynBioHub/Web-of-Registries
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
Manages SynBioHub federation
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
federationsynbiohub
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