Zachary Auclair (He/Him/His)

Experience

present 2025

Continued architecture and development of Flink as a Service on K8s (Hyperforce); established reusable platform, showcased to other teams
Implemented S3 state bucket retention policies via controlled rollout: $360K/year (non-Falcon) + $1.3M/year (Falcon) cost savings
Designed Flink job autoscaling architecture for Falcon; projected 33% reduction in EC2 spend ($2M+/year)
Re-architected Flink deploy with split clusters; reduced migration downtime from 30min to <1min
Architected and deployed DataPlumber Flink Platform on Hyperforce, including agentic chat features and tool calls; 80% reduction in triage time
Developed integration testing framework for flink, ensuring unit test coverage requirements met

2024 2023

2024 President's Award recipient (1 of 75 recipients in 80,000+ company) for re-architecting TOC Flink as a Service platform and delivering Tableau's Hyperforce Migration and cost optimizations
Architected and deployed new Flink streaming data platform on Kubernetes (Hyperforce)
Architected, wrote, and deployed DataPlumber Flink Platform; ~80% reduction in issue triage time
Onboarded Tableau app teams to Hyperforce platform through planning, announcements, and office hours; included extending platform with new features like debugging k8s annotations

2023 2022

Create event-driven automation to promote self-healing and enhance monitoring.
Extend Pipeline data ingestion client libraries (JMX, FluentBit)
Create internal and developer-facing documentation to streamline onboarding and FAQ.
Enhance Observability Pipeline to guarantee >99% availability (Kafka, Flink, Hadoop)
Standardize AWS infra deployment via Terraform modules, following best-practices.

2021 2018

Developed Kong plugin to speed up White-label adoption, decrease maintenance burden.
Created self-service Watchlist portal to automate client onboarding. Weekly collab with clients, saving hundreds of trainer hours, and onboarding thousands of clients.
Overhauled White-labeling report solution to modernize codebase, allow visibility into errors, automate screenshot generation, and provide Sales a new demo catalog.
Focused on speeding up highly-used, but under-supported client-facing web applications.
2018 Q4 SpeedSprint award: saved 2sec and 600KB of bandwidth / page load

2016

Updated Golang code for our Docker scheduling service (Heroku-like) to work with AWS EC2.
Built addons like database as a service (Postgres, Kafka, Zookeeper, Redis), status monitoring, oauth gateway, log aggregation, job scheduling, self-updating CLI, and web dashboard (ReactJS).
Trained new employees with curated lectures and labs; built self-service training portal
2018 Q3 SpeedSprint award: saved 2.5sec and 33KB of bandwidth / page load

2015

Managed team of 6, prioritizing, delegating, leading projects, and coaching junior members.

2013

Enhanced web services for self-service config deployment; created API-backed infra portals
Increased Postgres reliability via streaming replication, backups, and monitoring

2012

Created Tracker build service and self-service deployment tool for 7 clusters
Created fleet monitoring health service integrated with Cfengine and package rollout

2011

Created automated monitoring and self-service portal for SCM system (1000+ users); enabled streaming replication reducing outage time from hours to minutes

2010

2011 2007