Zack Butcher

Zack Butcher is a highly experienced Principal Engineer at Tetrate since April 2018, contributing to various functions including product design and development, customer engagement, and collaboration with NIST, resulting in multiple patents and special publications. Zack played a pivotal role in establishing engineering processes and product architecture as a Founding Engineer and led the product team to build a leading service mesh for enterprises. Additionally, Zack has served on the Istio Steering Committee, promoting vendor neutrality, and currently holds the position of TAG Networking Co-Chair at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Previous experience includes a Software Engineer role at Google, focusing on Istio, and earlier positions at Colonial Pipeline Company, Auburn University, and Alabama Cooperative Extension System, with a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering from Auburn University.