Summary
Zoe Helding is a DevOps Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently based in Chicago. She has worked on high-impact open-source and enterprise projects, including maintaining the widely used Terraform AWS Provider at HashiCorp and collaborating directly with AWS to add QuickSight API functionality. Zoe combines hands-on Terraform/Terragrunt IaC, Bash and Python automation, and CI pipeline expertise across AWS, GCP, and Azure to deliver reusable, production-ready stacks. Her background spans full-stack and data-focused roles—from building SMS-based recruitment tools and voter-data pipelines to front-end uptime and design-driven improvements—bringing user-centered thinking to infrastructure. Notably, she has experience bridging vendor collaboration, customer triage, and documentation for large-scale integrations. With an Oxford PPE degree and a track record in both civic tech and commercial settings, she blends analytical rigor with practical systems engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University of Oxford
Honors with Distinction, Honors with Distinction at Saint Ignatius College Prep
English, Spanish, German