Summary
Zach Bonham is a Software Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience building distributed systems and APIs within the Microsoft ecosystem, currently leading engineering at Virtuoso Travel from Allen, Texas. He combines hands-on engineering (C#, .NET, Azure) with people leadership, hiring and mentoring teams to adopt continuous delivery and cloud-first architectures. Zach has repeatedly moved legacy, on-prem products to SaaS—most notably driving Evidence Library from client-server to a cloud-first digital evidence platform with secure partner integrations. He excels at defining application lifecycle processes, ensuring architectural consistency, and navigating compliance needs like CJIS and FedRAMP across product portfolios. Known for a pragmatic philosophy—"slow is smooth and smooth is fast"—he balances deliberate delivery with a bias for shipping. Outside of immediate duties he’s comfortable jumping back into code and integration challenges to unblock teams.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer