ZachΒ Dods
Senior Security Engineer at Shakepay
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZach Dods is a Senior Security Engineer and full-stack developer based in Ottawa with eight years of experience building scalable, secure web systems. He has progressed through product and security roles at Shakepay, leading authentication, money movement, and vulnerability management initiatives that keep financial services resilient for Canadian users. Zach blends frontend-to-backend craftsmanship with a pragmatic focus on architecture and operational efficiency, honed earlier through client work in healthcare, pharma, and nonprofit sectors at Blackcreek. His background includes augmented reality and complex data-mapping projects, suggesting a knack for creative, cross-disciplinary solutions beyond traditional web stacks. Known for pairing hands-on coding with security stewardship, he moves between feature delivery and platform hardening without losing sight of developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma Web Design and Interactive Media, Advanced Diploma Web Design and Interactive Media at Humber College
Github Skills (52)
application-framework10
javascript10
react-native10
realtime10
typescript10
websocket10
browser10
sms10
bun10
api10
feathersjs10
nodejs10
vonage9
speedtest9
bandwidth9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zdods/yui
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
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Contributions:28 PRs, 60 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 3 months
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zdods/ar-space-invaders
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
project from college where a friend and I tried to create a "space invaders"-esque game using web-based AR technologies
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
technologiesjavascriptweb-basedfriendinvaders
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