Zimmerman Zimmerman
Principal DevOps Engineer at Empower
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZimmerman Zimmerman is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building cloud-native and bare-metal infrastructure, specializing in Kubernetes, EKS, Istio, ArgoCD, and Terraform across AWS, Azure, and air-gapped environments. He combines site reliability, DevSecOps, and automation expertise from roles at Empower (formerly Personal Capital), BrainGu, and acquisitions-backed firms, delivering resilient pipelines and secure platform tooling. An avid open-source contributor and project maintainer, he’s equally comfortable bridging cloud technologies with homelab bare-metal setups and experimenting with 3D printing and electronics. Passionate about environmental science, Zimmerman seeks to apply his infrastructure skills to forestry, GIS, climate mitigation, and renewable energy projects, bringing a practical outdoorsman’s perspective informed by frequent hiking, peakbagging, and trail running.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science/Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science/Information Systems at Grand Valley State University
Stackoverflow
3,255reputation
289kreached
69answers
11questions
kubernetes
top-5%
kubernetes-helm
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
vim10
scheduling10
chat10
influxdb10
k8s10
multiarch10
qemu10
torrent10
credit-card10
jsonnet10
json10
prometheus10
dokku10
argo-workflows10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
zimmertr/Bootstrap-Arch-Linux
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
zimmertr/Personal-Website-With-JS-Terminal-Emulator
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:205 commits, 231 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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