Zane Dufour
Senior Staff Devops Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZane Dufour is a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer based in Seattle with 8 years of experience building production ML and cloud-native systems. He blends deep machine learning platform expertise from Ford and Volkswagen with hands-on DevOps at Palo Alto Networks, where he’s modernizing Kubernetes deployments, observability with OpenTelemetry/Grafana Cloud, and secure DB access via ephemeral IAM tokens. Zane has led teams and mentoring efforts, created developer-facing SDKs and internal open-source tooling, and pushed progressive delivery practices to accelerate model and service rollouts. Equally comfortable in Python, Go, and infra-as-code, he prefers staying "at the bottom of the org chart" as a maker who enables others to move faster.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Physics & Applied Math, Bachelor’s Degree Physics & Applied Math at University of California, Berkeley
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (200)
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vim10
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keyboard-layout10
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data-science10
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pyinfra10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
znd4/nixfiles
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
my personal nix / nixos configuration
Contributions:2 PRs, 605 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
znd4/pdm-dotenv
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
pdm-dotenv
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 8 PRs in 10 months
pdm
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