Zach Davis
Chief Executive Officer at Cast Iron Coding
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolZach Davis is the founder and CEO of Cast Iron Coding with 15 years of experience building beautifully designed web products for mission-driven organizations, from museums and universities to publishers and non-profits. Trained as a Ph.D. in English, he pivoted from academia to technology and has since grown a multidisciplinary team that blends thoughtful design with robust engineering across Ruby, JavaScript, and various deployment tools. His recent focus on open access publishing produced Manifold Scholarship and a Next Generation Library Publishing platform, reflecting a commitment to sustainable, community-centered open source. Zach combines hands-on technical fluency with strategic leadership—overseeing operations, client relationships, and technology adoption—while retaining a scholar’s attention to usability and narrative in digital experiences. Based in Portland, he brings a rare mix of humanities insight and practical engineering that helps cultural institutions translate complex content into engaging, maintainable web platforms.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree English Italian, Bachelor's degree English Italian at University of OregonPh.D. English Language and Literature/Letters with Certificate in Early Modern Studies, Ph.D. English Language and Literature/Letters with Certificate in Early Modern Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (151)
epub10
digital-humanities10
rmagick10
refresh10
backend10
open-access10
sketchup10
router10
manifold10
extbase10
typo3-extension9
fast-refresh9
laravel9
tweak9
rest9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ManifoldScholar/manifold-docs-deploy
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:25 PRs, 19 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 6 months
ManifoldScholar/manifold-docs-deprecated
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:49 PRs, 131 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 7 months
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