Zachery Hostens
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Gusto
Davenport, Iowa, United States
Summary
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RockstarZachery Hostens is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 18 years of experience building and optimizing web-scale systems, now based in Davenport, Iowa. He has driven reliability, cost reduction, and operational visibility across startups and enterprise teams—most recently implementing OpenTelemetry and cutting hosting costs at Shogun and leading a zero-downtime Heroku-to-AWS migration at TextUs. Zachery excels at reducing latency and database load through targeted optimizations, designing robust async workflows, and codifying system expectations with RFC/ADR practices that accelerate onboarding and troubleshooting. His background spans full-stack Rails development, infrastructure as code (Terraform, ECS, Fargate), and custom telemetry that turned operational pain points into measurable improvements. Colleagues rely on him to translate messy production problems into durable, documented solutions that scale.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
gogs10
stimulusjs10
k8s10
captive-portal10
git-server10
camera10
api10
html10
object-detection10
npm-registry10
keybase10
http-server10
bitbucket10
talos10
google-coral10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
zacheryph/examples
Oct 2007 - Jun 2020
Contributions:71 commits, 15 pushes in 12 years 9 months
routine/container-images
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
Shared / Base Container Images
Contributions:48 PRs, 71 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 11 months
containerscontainerdockercontainer-images
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