Zachary Bridges
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Valid8 Financial
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Bridges is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating secure, compliant cloud platforms for highly regulated customers, including FEDRAMP and DoD workloads. He combines deep systems administration roots with modern IaC and CI/CD practices—authoring AWS CDK TypeScript, Terraform, and automation pipelines to enforce NIST 800-53 controls and reduce operational cost. Zachary has led DevOps teams, mentored engineers, and driven migrations and change-management processes that balance security, uptime, and efficiency. Comfortable across Linux distributions, AWS services, and database administration, he pairs technical rigor with a curiosity that spans art, history, and mathematics—a perspective that often surfaces in pragmatic, well-documented engineering tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics at Florida State UniversityAssociate of Arts - AA Chemistry, Associate of Arts - AA Chemistry at Tallahassee State College
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Github Skills (42)
vscode-snippets9
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terraform7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bg46z/dotfiles
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:91 commits, 46 pushes in 6 months
bg46z/i3dropbox
May 2015 - Oct 2019
fix the dropbox icons after update
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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