Zach Beattie
Helping Companies Cut Carbon Watershed
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Beattie is a seasoned sales leader and builder with 11 years of experience scaling developer-focused PaaS and API companies from early stages to unicorn valuations. Currently helping companies cut carbon at Watershed, he brings deep customer-first GTM expertise honed as an early sales hire and later director at Mapbox and Kong, where he built renewal strategies and managed global accounts. A repeat founder with roots in product-led startups (Co‑founder of SafeTrek/Noonlight) and a knack for creative ventures—he also launched a tech-free travel company featured in major outlets—Zach blends entrepreneurial curiosity with enterprise rigor. He contributes to developer ecosystems through documentation work on Mapbox.js, reflecting an attention to developer experience beyond pure sales. Based in Missouri, he pairs improv coaching and gamemastering instincts with data-driven approaches to drive adoption and long-term customer value.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management & Entrepreneurship, Bachelor's degree, Management & Entrepreneurship at University of Missouri-Columbia, College of BusinessUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (8)
doc10
map-box10
javascript10
mapbox-gl10
documentation10
html9
maps8
leaflet8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox.js
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the project by updating documentation. Their commits focused on modifying description meta tags within documentation files, adding and refining descriptions across multiple examples, and adjusting the description text within the API documentation. Furthermore, they updated the layout of documentation files. They added version information to description of the JavaScript library.
leafletapimapboxleaflet-plugindocs-site
zachbeattie/hello-world
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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