Zachary Auclair (He/Him/His)

Experience

present 2023

Architected and deployed new Flink streaming data platform on Kubernetes (Hyperforce)
Architected, wrote, and deployed DataPlumber Flink Health Platform; up to 80% reduction in time to triage issues.
Onboarded Tableau app teams to Hyperforce platform through planning, announcements, and office hours; included extending platform with new features like debugging k8s annotations

2023 2022

Create event-driven automation surrounding Observability Pipeline to promote self-healing and enhance monitoring metrics.
Extend Pipeline data ingestion client libraries (JMX, FluentBit)
Create internal and developer-facing documentation to streamline onboarding and FAQ.
Enhance Observability Pipeline to guarantee >99% availability (Kafka, Flink, Hadoop)
Standardize AWS infrastructure deployment via Terraform modules, following best-practices.

2021 2018

Developed Kong plugin to speed up White-label adoption, decrease maintenance burden.
Created self-service Watchlist portal to automate client onboarding. Weekly collab with clients, saving hundreds of trainer hours, and onboarding thousands of clients.
Overhauled White-labeling report solution to modernize codebase, allow visibility into errors, automate screenshot generation, and provide Sales a new demo catalog.
Focused on speeding up highly-used, but under-supported client-facing web applications.
Extended core symbology micro-service
2018 Q4 SpeedSprint award: saved 2sec and 600KB of bandwidth / page load

2016

Updated Golang code for our Docker scheduling service to interoperate with AWS EC2.
Built and enhanced ecosystem addons like database as a service, status monitoring, oauth gateway, log aggregation, job scheduling, self-updating CLI, and web dashboard.
Leveraged open source tooling like Postgres, Zookeeper, Redis, Heroku infrastructure services, OpenStack Swift, TravisCI, Jenkins, Git, Kafka, Grafana, ReactJS.
Trained new employees with curated lectures and labs; built self-service training portal
2018 Q3 SpeedSprint award: saved 2.5sec and 33KB of bandwidth / page load

2015

Managed team of 6, prioritizing, delegating, leading projects, and coaching junior members.

2013

Enhanced web services to provide self-service config deployment and oncall.
Created multiple single page, api-backed, infrastructure portals.
Increased reliability of Postgres setup via streaming replication, backups, and monitoring.
Led bake-offs for chat services, Git hosting, and continuous integration.
Enhanced and productionized open-source site deployments.

2012

Created Tracker, a central build service that publishes events to improve visibility for developers.
Created a self-service, SCM-backed, deployment tool to distribute files on 7 clusters.
Created monitoring for our host fleet via a health service on each; tied in with Cfengine, host tagging service, and package rollout service.
Enhanced open-source websites (Redmine, ReviewBoard), and admin Postgres.

2011

Created automated monitoring, a self-service web portal, and statistics collectors for issue detection, diagnosis, and mitigation for SCM system used by 1000+ users daily.
Trained new employees with curated lectures and labs.
Enabled streaming replication to cut potential outage time from hours to minutes.

2010

Enabled J2EE app security accross all test buckets for WebSphere in custom framework.
Gave formal presentation of results to greater team at the end of Summer.

2011 2007