Zach Balder
Lead Software Engineer at Common Energy
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Balder is a Lead Software Engineer in Boston with a decade of experience building reliable web applications and leading technical efforts at startups and scaleups. He blends product-focused frontend work (Next.js, Tailwind, React) with backend expertise (Prisma, PostgreSQL, API design) and a track record of improving reliability through testing, staging, and automated releases. Zach co-founded a startup that shipped a Chrome extension and measurable user analytics, and has driven features that enabled enterprise adoption at Gatherly, including SOC2-related hardening. He also brings practical security insight from hands-on bug bounty hunting and a history of shipping tooling that saved operational time in field deployments. Colleagues know him as an engineer who ships end-to-end solutions while tightening observability and incident response.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Northwestern University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (160)
windows10
cryptocurrency10
javascript10
linux10
golang10
js10
distributed-systems10
rocket10
consistency10
go10
macos10
nodejs10
consensus10
ethereum10
cryptography10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zbo14/web-tree-crawler
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
A web crawler that builds a tree of URLs.
Contributions:20 PRs, 35 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 7 months
urlsweb-crawlerspiderbuildscrawler
zbo14/zachh.me
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
My personal site ~
Contributions:9 PRs, 68 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 7 months
reactnextjs
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