Zachary King
Senior Software Engineer at Graylog, Inc.
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZachary King is a Senior Software Engineer in Dallas with four years of professional experience building and migrating large-scale Java-based distributed systems and cloud integrations. He has driven feature development and refactoring at Graylog—contributing backend enhancements to a well-known open-source log management project—while also serving as project organizer and cross-team technical point of contact. Prior roles at Raytheon and SAIC showcase his hands-on work migrating systems to AWS, integrating continuous delivery, and leading teams through complex testing and customer-driven requirements. Fast to learn new languages and frameworks, he pairs strong Java expertise with practical experience in Go, C#, TypeScript, and containerized deployments. Focused on growing into a technical lead, he combines mentorship, clear communication, and a track record of shipping reliable backend features that improve observability and operational readiness.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.00 at Auburn University
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Github Skills (15)
management10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
logging10
elasticsearch10
logger10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
apidoc9
api9
graylog6
monitoring6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Graylog2/graylog2-server
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Free and open log management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:255 reviews, 34 commits, 185 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Zachary contributed significantly to the Graylog2-server repository by implementing new features and refactoring existing code. Their work included adding a timezone dropdown to dynamic configuration modals, opening up the LookupTableService for extension, and refactoring the resource loading of the reserved IP file. They also moved simulation diff logic to the backend and added a function for checking Elasticsearch. Finally, they added a search version resource.
log-viewerloggingloggersecure-loggingsyslog
danotorrey/gelf-sample-data
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Sample GELF data generator
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
data-generatorgelf
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