Zachary Thomas

Programmer

Summary

Learning new and interesting things is why I became a software developer and what drives me every day. I always want to work somewhere that reflects that. I care deeply about the people that I work with and the products I work on.

Experience

10/2022 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Engineering on the Relay real-time-bidding product.

  • Designed/implemented reporting feature, collating billions of real time metrics into user consumable stats
  • Work daily on real time bidding server written in Rust
  • Worked with separate team when business needs required
11/2020 - 08/2021

Platform Architect

Lead design and implementation of backend systems.

  • Leading decisions and discussions on code base architectures and best practices
  • Contributing to all active code bases (Elixir, Rust, Typescript/React,)
  • Creating and facilitating technical processes and standards throughout the engineering department
  • Communicating the health of code bases to people outside of engineering
  • Continuing to hold hiring manager responsibilities
  • Also temporarily served as engineering manager
12/2018 - 11/2020

Software Engineer -> Senior Engineer

Worked on various engineering efforts

  • Worked mostly on the backend system (Elxiir/Rails) at first, but over time began to work across the stack
  • Wrote code for new things and for things that already exist
  • Worked closely with the support team and the product team to figure out what's most important to work on
  • Was on-call to handle and fix things that go wrong
09/2018 - 10/2018

Student Support Fellow

Temporary position to help and mentor students starting out at the school

  • Encouraged and supported students to help them succeed in learning to code and become a software developer
  • Worked with an assigned cohort of students, mentoring and pairing with them
  • Helped track student progress through the course material

LeForce entertainment

Audio technician for weddings, concerts, and corporate events

  • lead teams in settings up audio and lighting equipment specifically for the space
  • operated audio equipment during events/performances
  • worked at a variety of events, weddings, concerts, corporate, and charity
  • brought audio equipment to events
  • dealt with emergencies

St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM)

Worked with students and faculty to help students learn the Ancient Greek language

  • Instructed students both inside and outside of class on Ancient Greek reading and writing
  • Mentored students on their translations of ancient works
  • Gave feedback to professors on curriculum and student progress

Education

Turing School of Software and Design

03/2018 - 09/2018

Software Development

  • Backend Engineering

St John's College

01/2012 - 01/2016

Classics, Philosophy, History

Volunteer

Rust NYC

Organizer

I organize and host the Rust NYC monthly meetup, along with a great team of talented Rustaceans throughout the east coast.