Samar Acharya
Lead Software Architect at Zego (Powered by PayLease)
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Samar Acharya is a Lead Software Architect with 13+ years of experience designing and delivering resilient, service-oriented systems across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on engineering (Elixir, Phoenix, AWS, GraphQL) with strategic architecture work—driving microservices, observability, CI/CD and security efforts at Zego/Global Payments. A founding engineer who helped guide Zego from Techstars to acquisition, he routinely bridges product and infrastructure, from smart-home integrations to service mesh and distributed tracing. Samar is an active open-source contributor focused on security and tooling (notably fixes to sobelow and Elixir ecosystem projects) and maintains a pragmatic view of code as managed technical debt. Colleagues value his independent decision-making, curiosity and focus on shipping maintainable solutions under real-world constraints. Based in Kansas City, he pairs deep systems interests (OS, language design, distributed systems) with practical delivery leadership.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Kathmandu UniversityIntermediate in Science, Biology, General, Intermediate in Science, Biology, General at St Xaviers College
English
Github Skills (49)
hex10
javascript10
static-analysis10
python10
scripting10
elixir10
configuration-management10
audit10
vim-plugin10
security10
vim10
neovim10
shex10
script10
api10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
techgaun/active-forks
Mar 2017 - Nov 2021
Find active github forks of a repo https://git.io/vSnrC
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 23 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samar primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the functionality of the application. Their contributions included wrapping elements with forms, updating the header, and removing unused code, as well as making changes to how data is displayed. They also implemented a custom rendering function for displaying the "pushed_at" date using `moment.js` and modified the table structure. These commits collectively aimed to improve both the visual presentation and user interaction of the application.
apiforksgithub-forksshieldsiogit-io
techgaun/github-dorks
Oct 2015 - Dec 2021
Find leaked secrets via github search
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 44 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Samar primarily contributed to the development of a Python-based tool for searching GitHub for leaked secrets. They implemented the core functionality, including the ability to search for dorks, handle API rate limits, and integrate with a GitHub API. Further contributions included enhancements to formatting, improved messaging, and the addition of a monitoring feature for a private GitHub feed. The user also addressed a bug related to potential errors.
security-auditsecurity-toolsbugbountysecuritydorker
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