Elijah Zupancic

About Elijah Zupancic

Senior engineer, architect and technical manager focused on the intersection of people, business and technology bringing a human-centric approach to innovation. Skilled in player-coach roles leading software teams in architectural design, product development and holistic improvement. Comfortable in startup, turnaround environments and thrives on working on deep technical problems. Known for earning team members trust and keeping customers\' success as a focus. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor, architect, team lead or manager.• Led a team scaling an object storage system from 4 petabytes to 1.5 exabytes• Directed a group of solutions engineers in engagements with 10+ Fortune 500 companies• Managed organizations of 3 - 40 people• Strengths: Intuitive, unconventional thinking, questioning, managing ambiguity and technical acumen• Technical Strengths: Application & system architecture, debugging, performance, databases and cloud native design• Leadership style: Storyteller, mission centric, force multiplier, transparent, cultivating passion within the team and building remote friendly organizations• Philosophy: Leadership is a role of service, mentorship, explicit expectations, measurable outcomes and fostering a culture of inclusion and compassion• What drives me: Creating products and infrastructure that affects peoples’ lives positivelyAgile, Scrum, KanbanApplication ArchitectureCloud, CI/CD, DevOpsDistributed SystemsScaling Systems, ProfilingStrategy, Vision, ExecutionTeam LeadershipStartup & TurnaroundSolutions ArchitectureCustomer CentricProduct DevelopmentEmotional IntelligenceEngineering VelocityCost OptimizationTeam DesignTechnologiesJVM - Java, Groovy, Scala, Javascript - Node.js, Rust, Ruby, Go, C#, C / C++, PHP, Perl, Python, BashContainerization - Docker, ZonesOrchestration - Terraform / Packer, Kubernetes, Docker SwarmDatabases - PostgreSQL, MySQL/mariadb, Oracle, SQL Server, Cassandra, RedisOS - Linux, illumos, WindowsCloud Computing, DevOps (CI/CD, config mgmt, security & more), Profiling, Debugging, Code review, Large scale systemsIn addition to software engineering, I am an experienced translator of the Japanese Language which I speak/read/write fluently. If that seems weird, ask me about it over beer.

Experience

1. Nginx Chief Architect

   F5

   Jul 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Aoyama Gakuin University

  Exchange, Japanese Literature

  2000 — 2001

• Tokyo Medical and Dental University

  Research Program, Second Language Acquisition (Japanese)

  2003 — 2005

• University of Washington

  BA, Japanese Language and Linguistics

  1997 — 2001

• North Seattle College

  N/A, Chinese, Java

  2002 — 2003

Skills

• Manta
• Perl
• Smartos
• Groovy
• Openbsd
• Architecture
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Hadoop
• Ruby on Rails
• C
• Javascript
• Postgresql
• Node.js
• Mysql
• Java
• Ruby
• Shell Scripting
• Docker
• Unix
• Scala
• Software Development
• Python
• C++
• Php
• Design Patterns
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Go
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Devops
• Software Engineering
• System Administration
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Css