Zach Bailey
CTO At Primero Games Play City Group at Primero Games, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Bailey is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO at Primero Games / Play City Group with 15 years of experience scaling B2B SaaS and gaming platforms. He has led rapid team growth and product integration at Salesforce—driving Pardot from a small startup into a major Atlanta hub—and later spearheaded Flow integrations with Data Cloud. Zach blends hands-on backend engineering (notably contributing logging and configuration improvements to the Graylog open-source server) with strategic product leadership, emphasizing trust, relevance, and team culture. He excels at maintaining customer focus during fast change, building cross-functional organizations, and running reliable, secure systems at scale. Based in Atlanta, he pairs a UNC Chapel Hill computer science foundation with a track record of growing teams from single digits to 200+ while keeping retention and customer success high. Colleagues describe him as an authentic leader who deliberately builds fun, resilient cultures that amplify performance.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
Github Skills (15)
javas10
configuration-management10
logging10
configurations10
log4j10
configuration-file10
server10
java10
logger9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
management9
kafka8
security8
syslog7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Graylog2/graylog2-server
Apr 2011 - Apr 2011
Free and open log management
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on modifying the Graylog2 server's backend code, particularly related to logging and configuration. They updated existing code to integrate `log4j` for more comprehensive logging across various components, including configuration, blacklists, database interactions, and message handling. The user also made adjustments to the configuration logic and log file setup within the application, indicating a focus on improving monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.
log-viewerloggingloggersecure-loggingsyslog
znbailey/jQuery-Dependent-Fields
May 2011 - Dec 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
phphidehide-showfieldform-field
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