Daniel Zapata

About Daniel Zapata

Software professional with 25+ years of experience. Specializing in engineering management, developer tooling/automation and software QA architecture/automation.Specialties:Automating CI/CD processes getting from commit to production as efficiently and safely as possible. Containers, Build tools, Mobile and Social networking, Offshore team management, product ship readiness assessments, test automation, software test tools integration, professional services.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Netflix

   Jun 2011 — Present · Los Gatos, CA, US

   Working on building systems that scale our ability to create and optimize member experience pages, playing a key role in enabling choosing and contributing to a great member experience.Previous projects include:* Modernizing legacy systems and extending their lifecycle while productizing the replacement systems which will replace them* Building a centralized system for codifying developer workflows* Building out developer commit to prod tooling using Docker, golang, and NodeJS* Moving from 3 week to daily deployments for the Netflix API server* Feature development for the Spinnaker OSS project* Automating continuous delivery for the Netflix API server* Using code coverage in production to drive test prioritization* Automating a day of manual testing into a 10 minute test run* Automated migration from Perforce to Stash

Education

• University of Southern California

  BS, Computer Science

Skills

• Software Development
• Scrum
• Testing
• Selenium
• Test Automation
• Professional Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Java
• Jira
• Rest
• Integration
• Software Quality Assurance
• Distributed Systems
• Ant
• Release Management
• Software Engineering
• Quality Assurance
• Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Maven
• Tomcat
• Junit
• Linux