Zach Auten
Senior Software Developer at Bandwidth Inc.
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolZach Auten is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently driving engineering work at Bandwidth Inc. in Durham, NC. He has a strong foundation from roles at Fidelity Charitable and earlier embedded and automation work at Trilliant and Honeywell, giving him a practical edge across firmware, testing, and full-stack backend engineering. Zach contributes to notable open-source projects, including Homebrew, where he improved the brew info command to surface cask information and strengthened tests and code quality—an indicator of his attention to developer experience and robust tooling. With a Computer Science degree from Appalachian State University, he blends hands-on implementation with thoughtful refactoring and a knack for improving how engineers and users discover and consume package data.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Appalachian State University
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Github Skills (18)
package-management10
ruby10
homebrew10
command-line-interface9
rspec9
command-line9
cli9
macos8
phantomjs6
docker6
java6
git6
deno6
docker-compose6
selenium6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 23 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on enhancing the `brew info` command by integrating cask information retrieval. This involved modifying existing code and adding new functionality to search for and display information about casks when a formula of the same name doesn't exist. They also refactored code, improved test coverage, and addressed code style issues within the Homebrew project. This user contributed to the core functionality of the package manager by improving how information about packages is displayed.
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zachauten/homebrew-core
May 2019 - Sep 2022
🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS
Contributions:61 pushes, 213 branches in 3 years 3 months
macospackage-manager
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