Zac Smith
AI Engineer at Code Shock, LLC
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolZac Smith is an AI engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building AI-first software and teaching the next generation of developers. As CEO of Code Shock, LLC and an AI Engineer at Gauntlet AI, he architects LLM-driven systems, RAG pipelines, and automated workflows using Node.js, Go, GCP, Firebase, and multiple model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. He combines hands-on engineering with curriculum design—previously instructing computer science at the university level and serving as a Lambda School TA—bringing strong pedagogy to technical mentorship. Zac’s background in cybersecurity, legal research, and even TIG welding gives him a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving and system hardening. Based in Albuquerque, he’s an active educator and speaker who experiments with novel multi-model orchestration patterns and publishes tooling and tutorials through codeshock.dev and related learning platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Legal Assistant/Paralegal, Associate's Degree Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Ashworth CollegeBachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at New Mexico State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science: Cybersecurity Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science: Cybersecurity Engineering at Colorado Technical UniversityCertificate Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Certificate Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampAssociate’s Degree Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Associate’s Degree Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at New Mexico State University-GrantsMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at BloomTech
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
github10
sprint10
javascript10
git10
nodejs10
css10
react10
flexbox9
server-side-javascript9
web-development9
math9
codebase9
patch9
preprocessing9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mrzacsmith/mzs-lambda-react
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
NPM package that modifies create-react-app to make the template more usable for students.
Contributions:2 reviews, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 25 days
reactnpm-packagetodoistcreate-reacthigher-order-component
thomas-smith-dev/marketing-github.io
May 2019 - Oct 2020
Lambda School build project (Full Stack Software Engineer) Github User Breakdown
Contributions:102 commits, 91 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reactsoftware-stackbuild-projectfull-stackserverless
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