Zach Briggs
Staff Software Engineer at Mav
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Briggs is a staff software engineer with two decades of hands-on coding and 13 years in senior technical roles, currently owning a Rails-backed SMS platform at Mav. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and modern JavaScript, having led high-volume transactional systems like Weedmaps’ Cart & Checkout and scaled SMS infrastructure to handle over a million messages per day. Zach blends engineering leadership with product and design collaboration, driving architecture, observability, and automated testing while mentoring teams to improve delivery velocity and reliability. He’s equally comfortable shipping backend services and architecting frontend migrations—skills honed across startups and consultancies including Kin, Splice, and Test Double. A practical tinkerer with an eclectic past (from farming and fixing industrial equipment to creating predictive models), he values clear communication and simple, durable designs that stand up in production.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at CobleskillBachelor's Degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Sciences General at State University of New York at Oswego
English
Github Skills (67)
javascript10
crowd10
vue10
frontend10
conversations10
react10
jquery9
credit-card9
time-travel9
nextjs9
vuex9
progressive9
typescript9
credit9
angular8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
theotherzach/ate-oh-ate
Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
fatarrow-io/content
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
cmsmanagement-systemphpcontent-managementcontent-management-system
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