Hi, I’m Zack Richardson. This is my digital resume!
If you’d like to contact me, please reach out via LinkedIn @ richardsonz
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Education
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
B.S. Software Engineering
2015-2019
Senior Project: Fitness-tracking iOS app integrated with AWS (see demo)
Experience
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Software Engineer II
May 2022 - Present
- Building OpenTelemetry-based observability platform and tools shared across Commerce
- Developed infrastructure-as-code solutions to reduce manual toil during global expansion of multiple Commerce services on Azure
Software Engineer I
March 2020 – April 2022
- Developed service and infrastructure health monitoring solutions for various services running on AKS using Grafana, Prometheus, Kusto, and internal tools
- Developed and maintained .NET libraries shared across Commerce, including a CosmosDB client, an authentication middleware, and infrastructure configuration tools
- Migrated key services (serving 100k+ RPS across multiple global regions) to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and .NET Core
Expedock
Remote
DevOps Engineer
September 2019 - February 2020
- Managed company’s AWS resources and CICD pipelines
- Migrated backend services to Docker on AWS
Intuit
San Jose, CA
Software Engineer Intern
June 2019 - September 2019
- Worked within Intuit’s Financial Data Platform team building DevOps solutions to enhance developer productivity
- Designed AWS CICD pipeline that deployed services to production ~60% faster than previous solution (see demo)
JT4
Las Vegas, NV
Field Engineer I
September 2017 – February 2019
- Continued development of Java command and control system initially developed during internship
- Shifted multiple team’s build scripts from Apache Ant to Gradle, decreasing build complexity and improving developer experience
Software Engineer Intern
June 2017 – August 2017
- Developed Java command and control system utilizing the Nasa World Wind SDK