Raul Zarate
Production Engineer — a Marine Corps mindset applied to reliable, scalable, secure software systems.
Focused on the intersection of systems reliability, cloud infrastructure, and AI security.
Trajectory
- FoundationU.S. Marine Corps — mission-driven mindset: thriving under pressure, leading through complexity, delivering in high-stakes environments.
- EducationB.S. Mathematics & Statistics. Dual-track Master's work in Computer Science.
- Recent — Wells FargoOwned production reliability for critical financial applications (C#, Java, Python, MS SQL Server). Led incident response and root-cause analysis, debugged concurrency / deadlocks / data corruption, optimized SQL, automated diagnostics. Zero-downtime operations in a regulated enterprise.
- NowEngineering at the intersection of systems reliability, cloud infrastructure, and AI security.
Certifications
- NVIDIA Certified Professional: Gen AI LLMs
- CompTIA SecAI+ Certification
- CompTIA Security+ ce Certification
- PCEI™ — Certified Entry-Level AI Specialist with Python
- PCPP1 — Certified Professional Python Programmer Level 1
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Technical Support Fundamentals
