Zac Slade
Staff Software Engineer at Free Geek of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZac Slade is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, store-digitization systems for large retail at Walmart Global Tech. He blends infrastructure and application skills—Kubernetes, OpenFaaS, CQRS, static typing and modern web stacks like Next.js and SvelteKit—to deliver scalable, production-grade tooling. His background in SAN, HP-UX and Linux systems administration gives him deep operational empathy for complex distributed environments, and he has a proven track record leading teams and shipping microservices-backed web components. Zac is also a long-time community builder: he founded and now chairs Free Geek of Arkansas, turning an idea into a sustained nonprofit. Based in Fayetteville, he pairs pragmatic DevOps discipline with a fondness for functional languages like Haskell, which surfaces in his emphasis on correctness and maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
GED, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, GED, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Fayetteville High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (89)
postgresql10
http10
rest-api10
haskell10
pgsql10
union10
api10
rest10
sql10
database10
postgresql-database10
pg10
server10
linux9
hackage9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
krakrjak/haskell-dice
Apr 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 1 month
dice-rollinghaskellrollingquickydice
krakrjak/fits-parse
Apr 2018 - Dec 2024
Parse FITS files for Astronomy data analysis.
Contributions:6 releases, 12 reviews, 8 PRs in 6 years 8 months
astronomersastronomyfitsfits-parsehaskell
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