# Timothy Zavarella

> Software Engineer at NetApp

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timothyzavarella

## Work Experience
### MTS Software Engineer III @ NetApp
Jan 2024 – Present | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Backend Engineer on the Kubernetes monitoring team for NetApp's Cloud Insights SaaS infrastructure monitoring solution.

### MTS Software Engineer II @ NetApp
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Backend Engineer on the Kubernetes monitoring team for NetApp's Cloud Insights SaaS infrastructure monitoring solution.

### TA for Intro. to CS and Programming @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, MA
Lead Developer of Course Site: Developed and administered the course website custom built with the LMS framework CAT-SOOP serving approx. 300 students/semester.
∗ Hosts static & dynamic content, and executes student submissions in a sandboxed environment. Used to grade all
problem sets and quizzes in the course. Manages the class gradebook and other course management.
∗ Significantly Redesigned & refactored codebase to require less maintenance, avoid common errors, and simplify or
automate repetitive tasks. Created documentation for future developers.
∗ Implemented various new features such as security and tracking to allow for remote test taking due to COVID.
∗ Developed scripts for course management and new testing automation.

### M.Eng Intern @ NetApp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
MIT 6A M.Eng Research Internship
Research Goals: Create a methodology with minimal host dependencies to collect and correlate network packets with relevant Kubernetes workloads.
Results: 
- Developed a monitor capable of collecting network data at a per pod level and correlating it with involved workloads. 
- Containerized and deployed to clusters using DaemonSets. Ingested collected data into existing cloud monitoring solutions including Cloud Insights. 
- Approach was lightweight and portable across different kernels and Kubernetes CNIs.

### Data Science and Software Engineering Intern @ Micronotes.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston
Created automated scripts to aggregate key business data and metrics across multitenant databases.   Developed and administered an internal facing website to centrally display and visualize business metrics using Dash by Plot.ly

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Performed research on using data-driven market designs to improve market efficiency for India’s Agricultural Markets in conjunction with the company Digital Green. Responsibilities included: writing web scrapping scripts in order to automate the collection of over 3 GB of historical agricultural market data, performing data analysis in R and Python, and developing predictive models of market prices and transportation costs using machine learning techniques such as random forests, decision trees, and regressions.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/timzava

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Last updated: 2026-03-31