Zack Smith
Sr. Education Operations Engineer II
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarZack Smith is a senior Education Operations Engineer with 14 years of infrastructure and DevOps experience, currently designing and running HashiCorp’s global, performance-based exam ecosystem. He blends deep infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Packer, Vault) with cloud-native serverless Golang, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure operations, and hands-on security remediation. Zack has a strong track record of accelerating vendor integrations by building internal proofs-of-concept and mirroring vendor environments so product teams can move faster. He also builds productivity Slack apps and chatops tooling, and contributes to notable open-source projects like voxpupuli/puppet-r10k, demonstrating practical deployment and testing improvements. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs a trainer’s clarity—having authored advanced Puppet course material—with a pragmatic “good enough” engineering mindset that prioritizes version control and measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
puppeteer10
devops10
puppet10
r10k10
yaml9
automation9
automations9
infrastructure-as-code9
git8
testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-r10k
May 2013 - Jul 2016
Setup and configure r10k for use with git based environments in puppet
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:233 commits, 99 PRs, 289 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the configuration and setup of the `voxpupuli/puppet-r10k` repository. They made significant changes to the module's parameters, configurations, and templates, which indicates a focus on deployment and environment management. Their work included modifying the `r10k.yaml` template, which is a core configuration file for r10k, and adding tests for the module. The user also worked on the mcollective agent and various aspects of the install process.
r10kpuppetlinux-puppet-moduleconfigureenvironments
acidprime/exports
Feb 2014 - Feb 2018
A puppet face that queries puppetdb and returns the exported resources
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years
puppetdbreturnspuppetfacequeries
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