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Zach Wallace

Zach Wallace

Raleigh,NC

Summary

Respectful self-motivator gifted at finding reliable solutions for software issues. Experienced in Project Leadership, Engineering and Architectural Excellence and offering skills in Globalization and Distributed Systems. Fluent in English, Capable in Spanish, engineering excellence in Typescript, React, Nest, C, and accustomed to working with cross-cultural, global teams.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
2
2

Certificates

Work History

Senior Platform Engineer

Nearpod
Raleigh, NC (Remote)
03.2021 - Current
  • Architected and Engineered producer-consumer relationship for Localization across distributed architecture of microfrontends and microservices. Translated over 140,000 words into 6 locales via this service to date.
  • Architected search service implemented with opensearch for high frequency and low latency results. Improved search latency by 50% while introducing CI/CD, Traceability, Reliability, and Confidence.
  • Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
  • Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
  • Documented and developed engineering procedures and processes.
  • Developed comprehensive engineering documents for all projects.
  • Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.

Full Stack Software Engineer

DaySmart
Raleigh, NC
05.2019 - 03.2021
  • Built and Integrated custom serverless plugin to enable automated migrations throughout all environments
  • Collaborated with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks
  • Led move from non-Agile to Agile team development
  • Assisting in team growth through interviews and candidate placement
  • Worked heavily in NodeJS with Express through AWS Serverless on backend, and AngularJS/Angular in frontend.
  • Improved Data Schema through monitoring and indexing
  • Led onboarding for 2 Junior Developers and 2 offshore developers

Lead Architect

Techucate
08.2018 - 03.2021
  • Architected and Built React Frontend with Strapi backend website
  • Architected and Built iOS mobile application with netlify serverless backend
  • Transform client business requirements into Technical products through hands-on development
  • Established TDD culture, which focused on integration and unit testing via Jest
  • Acts as good steward of Techucate's resources and ensures control of IT and IO departmental budgets.

Software Engineer

Participate
06.2016 - 05.2019
  • System Infrastructure (terraform and docker)
  • GraphQL Frontend and Backend integration
  • Project Management of Intern program
  • ElasticSearch integration
  • Ruby API, ReactJS frontend

Software Engineering Intern

Participate Learning
Chapel Hill, NC
2014.07 - 2016.06
  • Architected and Built mobile application around an existing system for reporting that single-handedly led to 6 figure deals as described by the CEO
  • Assisted with Data Integration from varying data systems that would integrate with our site. Both high frequency data consumption and schedule jobs for daily reports

Education

Master of Arts - Management

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
11.2023

B.S - Computer Science

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
05.2016

Skills

  • Fluency in many different languages (querying and coding), frameworks: ReactJS, Typescript, NestJS, AngularJS, Angular7-10, Express (Node), AWS Serverless, Netlify, HTML, C, SQL (MySQL, PostgresQL), GraphQL, NoSQL (Mongo)
  • Establishing a healthy balance between business development and technical requirements
  • Discover and lead implementation of new technology into an established development stack
  • Strong verbal communication

Certification

  • CORe of Readiness by Harvard Business Extension School
  • Professional Scrum Master I

Timeline

Senior Platform Engineer

Nearpod
03.2021 - Current

Full Stack Software Engineer

DaySmart
05.2019 - 03.2021

Lead Architect

Techucate
08.2018 - 03.2021

Software Engineer

Participate
06.2016 - 05.2019

Software Engineering Intern

Participate Learning
2014.07 - 2016.06

Master of Arts - Management

Harvard University

B.S - Computer Science

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

Accomplishments

  • Mentored four individuals on my free time, all of whom are moving forward with their technical careers
  • Created and maintained two profitable companies for many years while in school and working full-time
  • Proposed, built, and managed a mobile application that represented my previous company (Participate) in landing 6 figure deals as the only developer on this project.

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