Robert Zimmerman
Senior Security Software Engineer at Netflix
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Zimmerman is a Senior Security Software Engineer with 13+ years building resilient, automated systems for space and internet-scale operations. He’s combined hands-on development (Python, C, TS) with systems engineering at NASA JPL on the Curiosity rover and later automated Planet’s satellite fleet from a single-satellite startup to dozens in orbit. At Rocket Lab he led Photon spacecraft operations software and at Cloudflare/Netflix he shifted focus to security software, bringing spacecraft-grade reliability and operational rigor to cloud infrastructure. An empathetic manager and lifelong developer, he’s as comfortable debugging low-level hardware interactions as designing AWS-backed services and automation pipelines. Quietly, his career shows a rare through-line: designing systems that must never fail under real-world constraints, whether on Mars or in production.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M. Eng., Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, M. Eng., Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (42)
docker10
secrets10
vault10
ecosystem9
programming-language9
exporter9
prometheus-exporter9
python9
golang9
linter9
go9
keyring9
encryption9
system-information9
access-management9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rzimmerman/kal
Nov 2012 - May 2014
A powerful, easy-to-use, and easy-to-read programming language for the future.
Contributions:435 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
programming-language
rzimmerman/iscyrusgoingtoburningman
May 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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