Zachary Deacon
System Engineer at Expeditors
- Role
- System Engineer (Dev Ops Engineer Iii) at Expeditors
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zachary Deacon
DevOps Engineer with a rare blend of large-scale operations leadership and hands-on cloud engineering experience.I spent a decade in operations leadership, managing and developing teams of 90+ before transitioning into software engineering. Over the past 4 years at Expeditors, I’ve advanced from Associate Engineer to DevOps Engineer owning Azure-based Kubernetes infrastructure, platform reliability, and zero-downtime migrations.I combine strong engineering fundamentals with operational rigor, technical leadership, and a focus on building reliable, scalable systems. Known for taking ownership, mentoring engineers, and driving complex platform transitions end to end.
Experience
System Engineer (Dev Ops Engineer Iii)
Nov 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Lead DevOps engineer responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of the company’s cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure. Owns end-to-end cloud platform operations while driving modernization, tooling adoption, and developer enablement.Key Accomplishments- Lead engineer for an Azure AKS cluster migration, moving production workloads to new infrastructure with zero downtime- Took full ownership of team cloud infrastructure during team reorganization, ensuring platform stability and continuity- Co-led adoption of modern DevOps tooling including ArgoCD (GitOps) and Kadeck (Kafka observability)Core Responsibilities- Maintain 100% uptime for mission-critical cloud systems- Ownership and management of 7 AKS clusters- Patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management of system applications- Implementation and maintenance of CNCF open-source tooling- Secrets management using HashiCorp Vault- Execution of major platform migrations (GitLab to GitHub, Azure networking brownfield to greenfield)- Training and mentorship of new developers and engineers
Education
Western Governors University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering
South Puget Sound Community College
Associate of Arts - AA
2009 — 2011
University of Washington
Certificate in Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering
2020 — 2020
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