Zac Bergquist
Director Of Engineering at Teleport
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZac Bergquist is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and cloud-native platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Teleport in Denver. He combines hands-on backend and automation expertise—demonstrated by contributions to prominent Go projects and tooling like the spotify Go wrapper, golang tools, and the vscode-go extension—with proven leadership running cross-functional teams and launching new managed services. Zac has a strong systems background (Linux drivers, DSP, and platform bootstrap tooling) and a track record of shipping first-time product support (bringing Windows/RDP to Teleport). He cares about developer experience and quality, evidenced by work improving language servers, editor integrations, and test automation. Educated in computer engineering (MS, Syracuse; BS, Buffalo), he also has a knack for hiring non-traditional talent and scaling teams through practical process improvements.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at Syracuse UniversityBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (32)
visual-studio-code10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
typescript10
language-server-protocol10
ui-design10
vscode-extension10
spotify-api10
bs-web-api10
language-server10
go10
webapi10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
zmb3/spotify
Jan 2015 - Aug 2021
A Go wrapper for the Spotify Web API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 99 commits, 69 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Zac focused on developing the back-end functionality for the Spotify Web API wrapper. They implemented features for album and artist lookups, incorporating testing. Furthermore, the user added the capability to search for tracks, and introduced functionality to page through search results. The commits suggest a focus on building the API client logic and associated data structures.
golangapispotifyweb-apispotify-web
joefitzgerald/go-plus
Jun 2015 - May 2019
An Enhanced Go Experience For The Atom Editor
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 284 commits, 72 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zac primarily focused on enhancing the Go-Plus Atom editor experience by implementing and refactoring features related to the editor's panels. They added commands, keybindings, and styled the panel to match the editor's font and size. Furthermore, the user fixed issues related to determining the current working directory. The user also refactored the Go documentation panel to integrate godoc.org links. Lastly, the user added gofmt functionality back into go-plus, and removed the need for external formatting tools.
golangatomgoatom-editor
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