Zoran Zorica
Principal Engineer at Daytona
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolZoran Zorica is a Principal Engineer and Site Reliability specialist from Croatia with a decade-plus background that began in Linux system administration and network engineering before evolving into cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-centric SRE work. He has driven GCP IaC and GKE operations, led GitOps migrations (FluxCD), and delivered measurable impact such as >30% monthly GCP cost savings through right-sizing and HPA tuning. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical audiences, he mentors engineers, organizes teams, and has spoken at conferences—skills honed through multiple leadership and IT director roles. His hands-on history includes designing national telemedicine networks, migrating legacy services to self-managed Kubernetes, and implementing Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana monitoring stacks, revealing a rare blend of infrastructure depth and program-level coordination.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, IT, MEng, IT at Polytechnic of Zagreb
English, German
Github Skills (62)
kubernetes10
charts10
vmware10
bitnami10
helm10
development-environment10
developer-tools10
controller9
grafana9
nginx8
hero8
google-cloud8
aws8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daytonaio/cloud-platforms-iac-examples
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 28 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year
zzorica/k8s-mgmt-pod
Dec 2021 - Sep 2023
k8s-mgmt-pod
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 9 months
mgmtk3dk8skubernetespod
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