Zack Smith

Sr Education Operations Engineer Ii @Hashicorp

Portland, OR, US

I design build and maintain a global performance based exam ecosystem. Used by candidates across the globe and internal employees. I utilized dev,sec and chatops to make complex infrastructure as code system to use. I maintain custom Slack Applications that automate tasks and boost productivity across multiple teams. I manage vendor technical relationships and build proof of concept internal systems before submitting architecture to outside vendors. I actively maintain AWS and Azure environments and heavily work in server less Golang and cloud native infrastructure. I actively work with an remediate on going security threats using tooling like Wiz. I use my consulting experience to reverse vendor systems and provide integration feedback while proving my solutions will work with internal tooling and mirroring vendor environments. This often allows accelerated development by teams of subject matter experts before the vendors are even ready with a feature. I uses 10+ years of infrastructure as code expierence to solve issues with tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Ansible, Inspec, Packer, Vault, Terraform and many more. I try to use the best tool for the solution and view perfection as the enemy of good enough. I prioritize trusted methodologies such as version control over beauracy. I will speak truth to power and always will attempt to optimize business processes.