Arshad Zackeriya

Arshad Zackeriya, a Senior Engineer at Xero, specializes in empowering organizations to deliver software at high velocity through best DevOps practices. He is well-known in the community as Zack, and his expertise primarily centers around Amazon EKS and Developer Tools. Zack's career commenced as a System Administrator, where he worked extensively with Linux on bare metal servers and created his AWS Account in 2014.

Zack is a tech enthusiast who passionately engages with communities to both learn and share knowledge. His experience includes delivering multiple talks at various AWS Summits in ASEAN and Sydney, AWS Meetups, and AWS Community Days. Additionally, he held the position of AWS Community Builder for five consecutive years, earning recognition as Nominated for the APJ Community Builder of the Year for 2022 and 2023.

Zack serves as the Wellington Lead and Co-Organizer for the AWS User Group Aotearoa (New Zealand). He played a key role in organizing the first-ever AWS Community Day Aotearoa (New Zealand) and also contributed in AWS New Voices as a Coach. Zack is the host of two podcasts: DevOps with Zack, where he converses with industry guest speakers about DevOps principles and various AWS tools and services, and The Zacs' Show Talking AWS, which centers on DevOps and Serverless practices. In this podcast, he partners with another Zach, whom he met through the AWS Community Builder program.