Zack Zlotnik
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Zlotnik is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and deployment automation, currently at Red Hat in Pittsburgh. He brings deep DevOps and backend expertise from roles at IBM and Google, where he implemented Kubernetes templating, GDPR-compliant deployment auditing, and performance-focused App Engine services. Zack has hands-on experience improving CI/CD and build processes—contributing to OpenShift's machine-config-operator by hardening daemon deployments, proxy configs, and test tooling. He programs primarily in Go and Python and has a strong track record of creating compact, maintainable infrastructure images and automated maintenance tools. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends systems-level engineering with scriptable automation to reduce operational toil. Outside work he’s produced web platforms and tooling since the early 2000s, reflecting a long-standing curiosity for practical, full-stack solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Science, BS Information Science at Robert Morris University
Github Skills (16)
sh10
kubernetes10
automation10
server-configuration10
script10
docker10
configurations10
automations10
shell10
system-configuration10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dockers10
scripting10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/machine-config-operator
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:445 reviews, 44 commits, 137 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the machine-config-operator repository by addressing issues related to the deployment and configuration of the daemon and its associated components. Their commits focused on ensuring proper quoting of environment variables within the daemonset for proxy configurations and improving test helpers for more robust testing. They also added scripts for building, pushing, and deploying binaries to various MCD pods and improved build processes by including GOOS/GOARCH information and generating JUnit reports.
cheesesashimi/BloggerEngine
Apr 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 9 months
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