Zack Koppert
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Koppert is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub in Portland, Oregon, who leads the New User Experience and helps enterprise open source programs adopt GitHub products. He blends hands-on engineering with program leadership — roughly half his time is writing code and half driving Open Source and InnerSource programs and automation. His background spans DevOps and software leadership, contributing to notable open-source projects such as opensource.guide (small but impactful front-end UX work like a "scroll to top" and JS modernizations) and super-linter (CI/CD and DevSecOps improvements including Trivy security scanning). Previously he established an Open Source Office at Tektronix and has shipped software in Python, JavaScript, Shell, and Go, connecting UX, security automation, and organizational practice to make open source work at scale.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Engineering at George Fox University
Github Skills (31)
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
dockerce10
scripting10
github-actions-workflows10
bash10
dockers10
automation10
script10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
ci-cd10
sh10
automations10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
super-linter/super-linter
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Combination of multiple linters to run as a GitHub Action or standalone
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 328 reviews, 123 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and automation, focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline. Their work involved modifying scripts for Docker image management and security scanning using Trivy. Additionally, the user updated GitHub SSH fingerprints and addressed issues related to PowerShell installation. These changes collectively improved the build process, security, and deployment workflows of the project.
combinationlinterlintersquality-checkci
github/opensource.guide
May 2023 - Sep 2024
📚 Community guides for open source creators
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 25 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on improving user interaction and visual elements. Their commits included implementing a "Scroll to Top" button, ensuring it appears and functions correctly based on the user's scroll position. The user also updated Javascript files, and modified the inclusion of a Javascript file within the index file, all of which suggests an understanding of front-end development principles within the project context of a community guide. They also updated the jQuery library.
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