Rusty Zarse
Chief Technology Officer at STASH
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRusty Zarse is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience building mobile-first, enterprise and family-focused products from idea to market. As CTO of STASH Social he is now steering FamTech innovation around AI-driven recommendation and personal media management, having previously led teams as Founder of LeVous and as Principal Software Engineer at Optios where he combined biometrics, neuroscience and ML to enhance human learning. He has deep roots in iOS and Microsoft .NET ecosystems, guided product and engineering transitions to agile practices, and built analytics- and performance-driven platforms as a former CTO in marketing and investment tech. Rusty pairs hands-on architecture and UI sensibility—obsessed with intuitive, highly optimized user experiences—with strategic product leadership. Based in Atlanta, he blends startup grit with consultancy rigor, often modeling teams and offerings on training-driven, knowledge-centric organizations. A practical polyglot technologist, he frequently bridges research ideas into production-ready mobile and web systems.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MCSD/MCSE/MCDBA, MCSD/MCSE/MCDBA at Ameritrain Inc
Github Skills (200)
quill10
cli9
shell9
html-editor9
scroll9
wysiwyg9
hijri9
ibeacon9
kotlin9
textview9
calendar-view9
rich-text-editor9
location-services9
aws-lambda9
utc9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
levous/tribecast
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:217 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 11 months
levous/fuse-swift
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
A lightweight fuzzy-search library, with zero dependencies
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
dependencieszerofuzzyfuzzy-searchzero-dependencies
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