Zachary Whaley
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Whaley is a seasoned software engineering manager in Austin with 12 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, security services, and real-time embedded systems. He blends hands-on C++, Python, and Java development with leadership of DevOps and Agile teams, shaping infrastructure-as-code, deployment tooling, and zero-trust authentication platforms. At TrendAI he progressed from engineer to Sr. Staff and now manager, driving AWS automation, certificate lifecycle and relay orchestration while mentoring teams on Terraform and CloudFormation best practices. His background includes performance-focused engineering at Cisco (CI/CD, CMake build rewrites) and safety-critical sensor fusion work for the F-35, reflecting a practical knack for simplifying complex systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Terragrunt’s Terraform integrations and environment handling, showing attention to reliability and developer ergonomics.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Southern Methodist UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (16)
terraformer10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
aws10
devops10
terraform10
cli9
developer-tools9
opentofu8
gnu-make6
coredata6
amazon-web-services6
aws-cli6
android6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terragrunt
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that allows Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform to scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily focused on improving the Terragrunt codebase related to Terraform configuration and handling environment variables. They implemented functionality to ignore Terraform data directories, refactored existing code to use `TerragruntOptions.Env` instead of direct OS calls and updated utility functions. Their contributions show a focus on improving the reliability, flexibility, and correctness of Terragrunt's interactions with Terraform and environment settings.
devopsterragruntterraform-modulesdeveloper-toolsthin
zachwhaley/bp4o
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
Better P4 Output
Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 142 commits in 2 years 5 months
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