Zachary Bedell
Technical Manager at New York State Unified Court System
Town of Sand Lake, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorZachary Bedell is a Technical Manager with 15 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, server administration, and full-spectrum application development spanning iOS, web, and desktop platforms. He leads infrastructure and automation efforts at the New York State Unified Court System, bringing a pragmatic focus on repeatability and resilient boot-time behavior. As an owner and early CTO of small tech firms, he combines entrepreneurial breadth with deep systems-level expertise—evidenced by contributions to OpenZFS (Dracut/ZFS boot modules) that fixed race conditions and improved pool import robustness. Based in Sand Lake, NY, he excels at turning manual operations into automated, scalable workflows and enjoys solving subtle compatibility and initialization issues that most engineers never see.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
bootloader10
sh10
filesystem10
script10
openzfs10
shell10
zfs10
scripting10
boot10
drc10
gpt9
udev7
kernel-module7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
Jul 2011 - Sep 2011
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the Dracut module for ZFS, making changes related to boot process initialization and error handling. Their work included fixing race conditions, adding support for command-line flags, and improving the robustness of ZFS pool imports during system startup. The user's contributions extended to modifying scripts used during the boot process and ensuring compatibility with different versions of Dracut. They also addressed GPT compatibility issues, which demonstrates their expertise in the underlying system.
freebsdlinuxopenzfssystem-softwarefile-system
pendor/gentoo-zfs-install
Jul 2011 - May 2015
Script files, documentation, etc. for installing Gentoo on ZFS root direct from livecd (work in progress...)
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
gentoolivecdzfs
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