Zachary Armstrong
Principal Cloud Engineer at Jobcase, Inc.
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Armstrong is a Principal Cloud Engineer in Denver with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, migrating, and operating large-scale AWS environments. He leads a team of senior engineers at Jobcase, managing hundreds of EC2 and RDS instances, driving cloud migrations, and architecting secure CMS and database solutions while modernizing automation with Ansible and custom tooling. His background spans high-throughput e-commerce and SaaS platforms where he implemented Puppet at scale, rebuilt release pipelines, and improved monitoring and deployment speed by orders of magnitude. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he also chips in to open-source projects—recently enhancing UI and configuration for the popular FoundryVTT Pathfinder 2E system. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic mentorship and cross-team collaboration to ensure services are scalable, monitored, and resilient. Outside core ops work, he combines scripting fluency (Python, Bash, Perl) with a history of creative problem solving, from concert photography to building internal dashboards.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology
Spanish, Sign languages, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
foundry10
javascript10
typescript10
f10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
vtt10
handlebars9
configuration-management9
html8
uid8
front-end-development8
css8
ui-design8
powerpoint6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
foundryvtt/pf2e
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
A community contributed game system for Pathfinder Second Edition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the configuration and enhancement of the Pathfinder Second Edition (PF2E) game system within the Foundry Virtual Tabletop (FoundryVTT) environment. Their work involved modifying configuration files and templates to incorporate new features like spell traits filters and to improve the user interface, specifically on feat and item display. They also addressed bugs and improved code readability through the use of Handlebars helpers and the replacement of outdated code elements.
gamepathfinder-second-editionpathfindergame-developmentfoundryvtt
zarmstrong/pfs-consumables
Jun 2021 - Aug 2023
This module contains easily drag & drop PFS consumable journal entries.
Contributions:12 releases, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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