Zak Elep
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at TableCheck
Pasay, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolZak Elep is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on Kubernetes and SRE at TableCheck. He combines deep systems and network programming skills across Python, Ruby, Go, C, Rust and Raku with hands-on expertise in Docker, Kubernetes and AWS to deliver resilient, observable platforms. Zak has a history of improving backend maintainability in notable open-source projects like MetaCPAN Web—tuning Net::Async::HTTP connection pooling and Docker logging to yield more reliable deployments and developer-friendly observability. His background includes roles from backend development to chief architect and infrastructure lead, giving him a rare blend of software packaging, systems research, and operational troubleshooting. Based in Pasay, Philippines, he is an active polyglot hacker with long-term involvement in Debian/Ubuntu packaging and OpenBSD work, bringing pragmatic craftsmanship to complex distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AA, AA at University of the PhilippinesBS, BS at Ateneo de Manila University
English, Tagalog, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
api10
perl10
apidoc10
docker8
metacpan8
cpan8
dockers8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
metacpan/metacpan-web
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Web interface for MetaCPAN
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zak primarily focused on improving the backend functionality and maintainability of the MetaCPAN-Web interface. Their work involved configuring connection pooling for the Net::Async::HTTP library and preventing output buffering in Docker containers to improve logging. Additionally, the user fixed a search query issue and added a mechanism for showing contributing guidelines for releases, incorporating API changes to enhance the user experience. Further contributions included reverting a previous change related to output buffering and merging in other changes to keep the project up-to-date.
cpanmetacpanperlweb-interface
zakame/mojox-renderer-writeexcel
Jun 2010 - May 2022
Mojolicious::Plugin::WriteExcel
Contributions:117 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 12 years
phpmojolicious
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