Polyglot, problem solver and remote-worker, and engineering leader. I enjoy solving problems according to their technical specifications, ecosystem support, business longevity1.
I've been the CTO of a 50 person startup, a Sr. Director of Engineering, led a deeply technical platform group ~25 software engineers and ~3 managers and most recently built out our Database Platform Team as the Tech Lead Manager.
I'm deeply interested in results and less interested in the exact tools/technology we use.
- Use presigned AWS STS get-caller-identity for authentication (1 year ago)
- On Reliability (1 year ago)
- Deno for Shell Scripting a Pagerduty helper (1 year ago)
- Replacing inlined scripts with bundler inline (1 year ago)
- Automatically Warm EBS Volumes from Snapshots (1 year ago)
- 3x Faster Mongodb Controlled Failovers (1 year ago)
- Use GEM_HOME for bundler inline (1 year ago)
- Cost Optimizations (2 years ago)
- Hugo to 0.105.0 (2 years ago)
- zph/hermit-packages - hermit package declarations (2 days ago)
- zph/dotfiles - My dotfiles (4 days ago)
- dagu-dev/dagu - Yet another cron alternative with a Web UI, but with much more capabilities. It aims to solve greater problems. (2 weeks ago)
- zph/capstan - Capstan's goal is to reduce the human labor and errors involved in safety checks when performing major changes to complex systems
- zph/templating - Experiment in reducing Terraform boilerplate with deno and jinja templating
- zph/multi-cache - cache-manager stores for Deno
- Founding my own startup
- Databases at scale
- Log Architecture and Data pipelines [eg]
- High throughput distributed & fault tolerant systems
- Rapid growth and learning
- While delivering high business impact
- That's sustainable and low maintenance
- Striking the right balance of speed and precision (depending on circumstance)
- Enjoying the work I do and the people I work with
- Fintech
- Small/medium startups
- High traffic websites
- Media companies
- Platform
- Online Storage
- Infrastructure
- Developer Efficiency
๐ซ Technologies I want to spend more time with professionally and personally (ORDER BY interest DESC
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- NewSQL, NoSQL, ClassicSQL
- GRPC & Protobufs (they're the future ๐ and the past ๐ค)
- Golang (fast, predictable, dull and small syntax surface area ๐ฟ๏ธ))
- Rust
or Haskell(to improve my craft of software engineering)4 - Elixir (in the right niche circumstances and for the pragmatism of OTP ๐ฎ)5
I enjoy programming, pairing (1-1), remote teams, Open Source Software, databases, commandline tools, FP and some other important buzzwords.
I'm very fortunate to be happily employed with a few standing offers but if you want to offer me the chance to work on challenging things with kind folks, I'm happy to chat. To set realistic expectations6, it's unlikely I'll be drawn away from my current team because they're wonderful folks <3.
- dagu-dev/dagu (v1.14.0, 1 day ago) - Yet another cron alternative with a Web UI, but with much more capabilities. It aims to solve greater problems.
- jdx/mise (v2024.7.3, 5 days ago) - dev tools, env vars, task runner
- denoland/deno (v1.45.2, 1 week ago) - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Zh add shard configuration on zph/terraform-provider-mongodb (1 week ago)
- Use GitHub actions for release on zph/terraform-provider-mysql (2 weeks ago)
- (bug) Fix params quoting when using quotes on value on dagu-dev/dagu (2 weeks ago)
- jira-cli (1 week ago)
- Deno wrapper for pagerduty-cli (1 year ago)
- EBS disk warming script using fio (1 year ago)
- Wirebrass/kubernetes-the-hard-way-on-proxmox - Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts. (1 day ago)
- dy2k/proxmox-kubernetes - Deploy Kubernetes on Proxmox Ubuntu LXCs and VMs (1 day ago)
- zellij-org/zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included (1 day ago)
- Blog: https://blog.xargs.io
- Github: https://github.com/zph
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zph/
-ZPH zander@xargs.io
To send secure messages, use my public keys on github combined with age
Footnotes
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Low excitement, high productivity and reliable/performant systems โฉ
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If/when it gets off the ground it has the right foundation to be groundbreaking b/c of FDB. โฉ
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MongoDB and I have a complicated relationship. It helped successfully launch and scale three startups of mine and was a poor choice for datastore in 2 of 3. I've come to appreciate deeply what it accomplished in the 1 of 3 where it was the most correct choice available and also look forward to evolving onto a new platform that can learn from the architectural mistakes of MongoDB. Ironically, by knowing it deeply and the alternatives, I've become hawkish defender of Mongo when people throw around technically barbs about this datastore. It's as if the trauma I've experienced have bonded me to it like Gollum and The Ring. โฉ
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Rust is a language that can still help me grow as a software engineer and one I'd enjoy a sincere practical reason to become proficient with. โฉ
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I'd likely only use elixir from the ground up in a company as adopting it into existing company was challenging and problematic. โฉ
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If I look at all offers/outreach, I've accepted around 1 in 500 โฉ