Vancouver, British Columbia · 15+ years in engineering
Building software.
Engineering reliable platforms.
Zee CaniagoStaff Software & Platform Engineer
I’m Zee Caniago, a Staff Software & Platform Engineer with 15+ years across software development, cloud infrastructure, and production operations. At HP, I build automation for SaaS platforms, from provisioning and deployment to secrets management and security controls.
Staff Software & Platform Engineer
01 / Selected work
Systems that leave things better.
All workSaaS platform automation and security
Immutable provisioning, centralized secrets management, and automated security controls for SaaS services.
- Packer
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Vault
Infrastructure automation for 150+ hosts
Automated monthly patching and provisioning across Windows Server and CentOS, alongside CI/CD modernization.
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Rolling deployments, without late-night releases
Eliminated late-night releases and saved more than $100,000 annually in deployment costs.
- Rolling deployments
- CI/CD
- Google Cloud
- Elasticsearch
02 / Latest writing
View allBuilding Mereday
A native Mac app for organizing Desktop and Downloads files, with previews, receipts, and Undo.
The Hand That Becomes the Blade
AI, exteriorization, and the question of human agency
Reliability is a product decision
Why resilient systems begin with explicit choices about users, failure, and trade-offs—not monitoring tools.
Tools that expand capability
A working philosophy for building software that leaves people more capable than it found them.
Learning in public—without performing
Notes on curiosity, unfinished thinking, and documenting the path without pretending to have arrived.
Software · Cloud · Production
From application code to systems teams can rely on.
My experience spans SaaS development at Sycle.net, infrastructure and delivery automation at Global Relay, and platform engineering at HP. I work with architecture, security, and delivery teams to make systems easier to operate.
04 / From the lab
Small bets and unfinished things.
Enter the labMereday
My latest project: a native Mac app that tidies Desktop and sorts Downloads, with file previews, receipts, and Undo. Explore the demo while the Mac download is in development.
Swift · SwiftUI · macOSBaymax
A small, humane budgeting system built around natural-language expense capture.
Python · SQLite · AutomationMario Overseer
An operational interface exploring how focused tools can simplify platform supervision.
FastAPI · Streamlit · Cloud APIsLatest note · A useful dashboard answers a decision