Zak Scholl
Infrastructure Security Engineer at Notion
Greater Madison Area United States
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Top SchoolZak Scholl is an Infrastructure Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building detection-as-code pipelines, cloud-native security tooling, and scalable incident response systems. He combines deep Python development with Go and Ruby experience to deliver practical solutions—from command-line malware analysis tools to Kubernetes operators that provision AWS IAM roles. Zak has led migrations of secret and PKI infrastructure at scale, patched and sandboxed critical vulnerabilities in production, and built automation that scans millions of commits for secrets. A frequent open-source contributor, he’s helped improve AWS-mocking and least-privilege tooling used by many teams. He pairs an operator’s mentality with a research-driven approach to threat detection and malware reverse engineering, making him adept at both preventing and responding to complex attacks.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (21)
boto10
python10
back-end-development10
aws10
mocking10
cloud-security10
ias10
documentation10
testing9
github-ci9
bash9
devops9
githubaction-workflow9
script9
cli8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/policy_sentry
May 2020 - Dec 2020
IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zak contributed to the project by modifying the `policy_sentry/command/initialize.py` file to enable using the initialize function as a library function and adding default values for function parameters. They also updated the command reference in `policy_sentry/bin/cli.py`. Furthermore, the user added an auto-update GitHub action for data updates. These contributions suggest a focus on the core functionality and automation of the project.
policycloudsecurityiam-policyleast-privilegesecurity
getmoto/moto
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zak primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `moto` library, focusing on the IAM (Identity and Access Management) service. Their work involved implementing features for credential reports, updating access key statuses, and refining the last-used timestamps for access keys. They also fixed typos, formatted code, and added tests to ensure the proper functioning of these IAM-related functionalities within the mock AWS infrastructure.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
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