Zara Kay
Principal Software Engineer at Zepben
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolZara Kay is a Principal Software Engineer based in Canberra with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure platform services and leading cross-functional teams. She has driven architecture and delivery for identity and authentication systems—designing and rolling out a Central Authentication service with SAML/OIDC migrations at minimal downtime. Her technical breadth spans C#, Ruby, Go, Kotlin, Apache Kafka and service-oriented architectures, and she pairs that with practical DevSecOps practices to ensure compliance for regulated customers. Zara moves teams from monoliths to microservices while improving developer experience and on-call reliability, and she has a track record of introducing measurable platform and process improvements. She holds a Master of Computing from ANU and earlier GPU research work that doubled execution speed, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and production focus. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical leader who still enjoys diving into code and prototyping infrastructure changes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at The British School In ColomboMiddle Years Programme, Middle Years Programme at United Nations International School Hanoi
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Github Skills (158)
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data-visualization9
grafana9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
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aws9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zarakay/model2json
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 3 months
to-jsonfile-formatfile-modeljson-converterwebgl
bugcrowd/kong-build-tools
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Build tools to package and release Kong
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
kongbuild-tools
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