Zac Connelly
Senior Software Engineer at Toptal
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolZac Connelly is a senior software engineer with 12 years’ experience building and operating production web backends, currently based in Berlin and working at Toptal. He specializes in Python and Django microservices, RESTful API design, and reliable deployments—having introduced TDD, linting, CI/CD, and per-branch staging workflows across multiple teams. Zac has led cross-functional engineering efforts, managed a 10-person mobile/web/backend team at Mimi, and driven DevOps improvements using Docker, Ansible, and containerized staging environments. His background includes building data import pipelines, a data warehouse for research, and internal tools that boosted uptime to 100% for a production service. Originally from the US, he pairs hands-on coding with hiring and process leadership, often focusing on making testing and deployment repeatable and scalable.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (47)
forum10
discourse10
postgresql9
javascript9
python9
ruby9
django9
rails9
ember9
mhealth9
flexibility9
user-experience9
wagtail8
cms8
salesforce7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zconnelly13/.dotfiles
Mar 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
zconnelly13/project_euler
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 PRs, 43 pushes, 18 branches in 5 days
problemsprojecteulerpython
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