Zac Holland
Software Engineer at Empower Fresh Company
California, United States
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Top SchoolZac Holland is a software engineer based in California with eight years of experience building back-end systems, DevOps tooling, and front-end features across startups and established platforms. He founded and ran an app studio early in his career, then led front-end development at a startup before contributing to realtime infrastructure at PubNub and recently joining Empower Fresh Company. Zac is an active contributor to open-source, enhancing the popular kubernetes/git-sync sidecar by improving logging, adding webhook support, and hardening configurability. Comfortable across the stack, he’s delivered payment APIs, view controllers in C#, and backend integrations that bridge developer workflows and production systems. An avid climber and reader, he brings methodical problem-solving and curiosity to engineering challenges. He pairs entrepreneurial instincts with practical engineering discipline honed through shipping product end-to-end.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Foothill CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Denver
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
logging10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
webhooks10
api-design9
docker8
automations8
automation8
dockers8
githubaction-workflow7
cicd7
github-ci7
constructor6
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/git-sync
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
A sidecar app which clones a git repo and keeps it in sync with the upstream.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Zac primarily focused on enhancing logging and implementing webhook functionality within the `git-sync` application. They updated logging verbosity, moved code to add logs, and removed unnecessary logs. They also added support for webhooks, modularizing the code, and adding documentation. Additionally, they added environment variables for configuration and updated the main application to send a POST request on updates.
sidecarsyncsidecar-appclonesupstream
diericx/bevy
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
Self hosted popcorn time alternative software for grabbing, streaming and seeding torrents
Contributions:4 reviews, 133 commits, 44 PRs in 8 months
torrentstransmissionp2pbittorrenthosted
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