Zac Barnes
Staff Software Engineer at Ramp
McKinney, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZac Barnes is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises like Vinli, Toyota Connected, PepsiCo, and Ramp. He’s a pragmatic full-stack developer who moved from mortgage underwriting into software after an intensive Dev Bootcamp, and he excels at turning greenfield projects into reliable services and APIs. Zac has hands-on experience with microservice architectures that handled tens of billions of data points and 100M+ daily API calls, and he’s led hiring and team formation efforts including establishing a European engineering presence in London. Known as a craftsman who values elegant, useful code, he combines technical rigor with mentorship—onboarding and training new engineers while driving measurable business impact. Unusually for a senior engineer, his career began in mortgage operations, which contributes to his disciplined, metrics-driven approach to delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Immersive Program, Web Development, Immersive Program, Web Development at Dev BootcampAssociate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Dallas CollegeBachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences - BAAS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences - BAAS, Computer Science at University of North Texas
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (56)
elixir9
shiny9
batch8
launchdarkly8
erlang8
beam8
snowflake7
nodejs7
driver7
api7
dataloader7
graphql6
mongodb-driver6
mongodb6
validating6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pepsico-ecommerce/snowflex
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
elixir snowflake client
Contributions:10 reviews, 40 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 8 months
snowflakeelixir
zbarnes757/nepal-relief
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:47 PRs, 59 pushes, 11 branches in 17 days
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