Zaki A is a Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI with 9 years of experience, currently shaping buyer experience and growth initiatives on a cloud-native platform. Based in Milwaukee, he combines hands-on full-stack engineering with team leadership, mentoring engineers through pair and mob programming and guiding product-focused roadmaps. His career spans CircleCI and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he built scalable front-end UIs with React/Redux and robust data tooling with Elasticsearch, Flask, Jenkins and Ansible, as well as microservices in Go and Clojure. Earlier stints at Reach Creative and GreyGoo Media showcase his versatility across iOS/React Native, Angular, Electron, and diverse back-end stacks, from PostgreSQL to Redis and RabbitMQ. A former second-grade teacher with an Esoteric Education certificate, he brings unique clarity and curiosity to turning complex requirements into practical, auditable software—evidenced by MVP-style features like dynamic SVG badges, onboarding flows, and referrals at CircleCI.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Liberal Arts, Bachelor's Degree, Liberal Arts at St. John's College (NM)
Certificate, Esoteric Education, Certificate, Esoteric Education at Beshara School
Contributions:48 commits, 20 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 days
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