About
Hey, I’m Zack
I’m a Senior Software Engineering Manager working at GitHub
My work focuses on:
- Leadership: People management, OSPO strategy and execution
- Customers: Engineering best practices presentations, Hackathons, Conferences, Workshops, Trainings
- Engineering: Backend web services, GitHub Apps, GitHub Actions
- Program: Open Source initiatives, InnerSource initiatives, DevSecOps initiatives
What I write about
- InnerSource - measuring it, scaling it, and proving its value
- Open source program management - tools and practices for OSPOs
- DevOps and automation - CI/CD, infrastructure as code, developer tooling
- GitHub Actions - building and maintaining open source actions
Conference talks
I regularly speak at conferences about InnerSource and open source programs. You can find my recorded talks on my YouTube playlist.
Open source projects
I maintain several open source GitHub Actions in the github-community-projects org:
- pr-conflict-detector - Catch merge conflicts before they catch you
- issue-metrics - Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions
- measure-innersource - Measure InnerSource collaboration across your org
- contributors - Gain insight into your project contributors
- stale-repos - Find and manage stale repositories
- evergreen - Keep your dependencies up to date
- cleanowners - Keep CODEOWNERS files accurate