Zack Butcher
About Zack Butcher
Zack Butcher is a Principal Engineer at Tetrate and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, with extensive experience in software engineering and microservice security.
Title at Tetrate
Zack Butcher holds the position of Principal Engineer at Tetrate. He is also noted as a Founding Engineer at the company, contributing significantly to its early and ongoing development.
Principal Engineer at CNCF
Zack Butcher currently serves as the TAG Networking Co-Chair at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), where he focuses on networking technologies within the cloud native ecosystem.
Prior Roles at Tetrate
Previously, Zack Butcher served as the Head of Product at Tetrate from 2020 to 2022. During this period, he was instrumental in steering the Istio Steering Committee. Both roles were held in San Francisco, California.
Software Engineer at Google
Between 2015 and 2018, Zack Butcher worked at Google as a Software Engineer. He was one of the earliest engineers on the Istio project and contributed to Google's internal mesh systems. His projects included developing Google Cloud Platform's central resource hierarchy, service management, and identity & access management systems.
Education at Auburn University
Zack Butcher attended Auburn University, where he studied Software Engineering and earned his Bachelor's Degree from 2011 to 2014. His early career included roles as an Undergraduate Research Assistant and Web Developer.
Contributions to NIST
Zack Butcher is noted for his contributions to several NIST publications. He co-authored NIST SP 800-204a and NIST SP 800-204b, which focus on microservice security with a mesh security. Additionally, he participated in a webinar updating NIST SP 800-207A.
Authored Works
Zack Butcher authored 'Istio: Up and Running.' He also contributed an article announcing the general availability of Tetrate Enterprise Gateway for Envoy and was featured in a video discussing the modernization of Kubernetes ingress with Envoy Gateway.