Zachary Ball
Data Center Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarZachary Ball is a hands-on Data Center Engineer with over 20 years of IT experience and 12 years focused in data center and networking roles across enterprises like CoreWeave, Microsoft Azure projects, NBC Universal, and CareerBuilder. He combines practical skills—rack installation, cable plant troubleshooting, server hardware RMA work, and raised-floor deployments—with end-user support and help desk leadership, having stepped into an IT Help Desk Manager role early in his tenure at Adler University. Comfortable in both hands-on facilities work and operational coordination, he has experience across structured cabling (Cat5/6, multimode/single-mode fiber), blade servers, and system imaging at scale. An active contributor to open-source Ruby tooling, he added association and relation features to the Her ORM, showing a backend development mindset alongside infrastructure expertise. Based in Chicago, he thrives on projects that blend physical infrastructure, automation, and user-facing service reliability. Notably, his background spans both large cloud data center practices and intimate campus IT operations, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
ruby10
rails10
ruby-rails10
orm10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
remi/her
Sep 2015 - Oct 2019
Her is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. It is designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 83 commits, 53 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the Her ORM library by adding and enhancing features related to associations, including reload functionality, the `toggle!` and `toggle` methods, and the `find_by`, `find_or_create_by`, and `find_or_initialize_by` methods for relations. They also introduced methods for incrementing and decrementing attributes. Additionally, they fixed deprecation warnings and made improvements to the codebase for the model.
orm-object-relational-mapperapirelationalrailsrestful
zacharywelch/activeservice
Dec 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:387 commits, 3 PRs, 73 pushes in 4 years
restfulrestful-servicesorm
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