Zan Preston
Senior Systems Administrator
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolZan Preston is a Senior Systems Administrator with a software-first approach to infrastructure, bringing four years of professional experience and over a decade of higher-education-focused systems engineering. He builds secure, observable, cloud-native platforms and has operated and modernized microservice fleets, Kubernetes deployments, and CI workflows across Azure and GCP while contributing Tier 3 support for multi-million-user banking services. Comfortable across Python, PHP, Scala, Bash and a broad Linux toolchain, Zan combines hands-on programming with systems design—having single-handedly scoped and delivered critical web and hosting services at UCSB. He favors automation and reproducibility (Ansible, GitHub Actions) and has practical experience with storage and identity systems like Ceph and OpenLDAP. Based in Iowa City, Zan pairs academic-scale service reliability with production engineering practices learned in large financial platforms, making him adept at translating complex operational needs into maintainable, secure infrastructure.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Northern Iowa
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Github Skills (57)
scala-native10
http10
scala10
http-client10
http-server10
textmate9
serial-port7
command-palette7
pty6
stream6
metals6
scalafmt6
duolingo6
terminal-emulator6
rust5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zan-preston/dot
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:31 PRs, 76 pushes, 37 branches in 11 months
zan-preston/nvim-config
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:37 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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