Adam Zaninovich
Lead Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Pismo Beach, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAdam Zaninovich is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience and deep specialization in Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView and OTP, currently shaping backend systems at DraftKings while also contributing at Jackpocket. He champions collaborative, learning-focused teams and modern engineering practices—TDD, CI, pair programming—and pairs that mindset with hands-on skills across embedded systems (Nerves, Embedded C), native iOS, DevOps (AWS, Docker) and databases. His background spans startups, enterprise architecture, and freelance work, giving him a knack for translating product needs into maintainable, scalable systems. An avid open-source tinkerer (creator of @alice-bot) who also enjoys Nix and Emacs, he blends pragmatic engineering with curiosity rooted in a Cognitive Science HCI foundation from UCSD.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoComputer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Bakersfield
Stackoverflow
783reputation
24kreached
3answers
3questions
authentication
top-5%
Github Skills (56)
rabbit10
slack-bot10
spotify-api10
rabbit-hole10
bot-framework10
spotify10
authentication9
elixir9
slack9
chatbot9
api8
grouping6
elisp6
swift6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adamzaninovich/vimfiles
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
adamzaninovich/doom-emacs-config
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
My config for DOOM Emacs
Contributions:144 commits, 6 PRs, 122 pushes in 1 year 4 months
elispemacsemacs-lspconfigdoom-emacs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.