Zak Cutner
Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZak Cutner is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and production systems, currently at Cloudflare in New York after several years on their London systems team. He progressed from a software engineering intern to senior engineering roles, blending hands-on systems work with an academic foundation from Imperial College London's MEng in Computing. Zak specializes in scaling distributed services and operationalizing reliability at internet scale, with practical experience across global deployments. His career includes teaching experience as an undergraduate TA, reflecting an ability to explain complex technical concepts and mentor teammates. Though primarily focused on systems engineering, he has a software-first background that helps bridge development and operations. Based in New York, he brings a pattern of long-term impact within a single fast-moving, security- and performance-focused company.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Computing, Master of Engineering Computing at Imperial College London
English, French
Github Skills (200)
mls10
firewall10
terraform10
security10
eve10
text-processing10
extensible10
cloudflare-api10
netfilter10
network-tools10
api10
sdk10
azure-devops10
golang10
deadlock10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zakcutner/default-area-code
Apr 2018 - Jun 2021
Automatically adds a default area code to phone numbers in Google Contacts
Contributions:5 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
phone-numbercontactsphonegooglegoogle-contacts
CoderDojoLondon/vr
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 months
framea-framekidsshortunity
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