Zach Alberico
Product Manager at Tlon
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Alberico is a product manager and former software engineer with 15 years of experience building and maintaining resilient infrastructure and developer-facing systems from San Francisco. He spent nearly a decade at Palantir leading developer support and SRE-style automation work—mentoring teams, scaling processes, and solving thousands of production issues—before moving into product leadership at Tlon. Zach contributes to the Urbit open-source OS, making substantive back-end changes to core components like kiln and ames, reflecting deep comfort with low-level distributed state and networking code. He enjoys debugging complex systems and turning thorny operational problems into reliable product features, combining hands-on coding chops with strategic product sense. Known for mentoring engineers and shipping repeatable solutions, he brings a practical, systems-first approach to product development.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
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Github Skills (12)
urbit10
argo10
c178
c118
case-sensitive6
java6
autotest6
functional-programming6
filesystem6
posix6
pointer6
operating-system6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
An operating function
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 35 commits, 58 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Zach's contributions primarily involve modifications to the core Urbit operating system, focusing on the Hoon programming language and associated libraries. The commits demonstrate significant changes to the `kiln` component, which manages desk synchronization and state management. The user also made changes to the `ames` component, which is responsible for networking. Additionally, there is a fix for a typo in an azimuth file.
nockrustoperating-systemp2phoon
zalberico/zalberico.github.io
Dec 2015 - Aug 2022
Blog
Contributions:15 PRs, 109 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years 8 months
jekyll
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