Chris Z
Principal Software Engineer at LiquidFi
South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Z is a Principal Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building data-driven web applications and automation, specializing in Python, Django/DRF and React. He founded LazyFA to make markets easier to navigate and iterated through failures to grow it to sustainability, demonstrating entrepreneurial grit and a practical product mindset. He designs resilient, high-volume serverless systems on AWS—experience that includes automating email workflows and analytics at scale while maintaining strong security posture. As a former mentor and course author for Code Institute, he translates complex topics into hands-on projects, including a Django/AWS e‑commerce milestone. Based in South Carolina, he’s a tinkerer who seeks out things he doesn’t understand and keeps selective private repos that showcase deeper experiments and proprietary work.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, 3.7, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, 3.7 at Schenectady County Community College
Github Skills (57)
stock10
trading10
finance10
visualization9
charts9
svg9
data-visualization8
canvas8
django8
near-real-time8
apache8
browser8
echarts8
charting8
python37
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ckz8780/django_bs4_starter_template
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
Code-Institute-Org/ci-react-core-introduction-to-jsx
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
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