Summary
Zach Fitzgerald is a seasoned front-end leader with 11 years of experience designing and shipping responsive, user-centric interfaces across startups, large corporations, and SaaS products. Currently leading Front-end for Education Benefits at Degreed, he progressed through technical lead and senior engineering roles there, shaping UI architecture and delivery for complex enterprise features. His background includes co-founding a real estate tech startup where his team’s platform was adopted by a national bank, and earlier work building one of the web’s early social networks and dozens of large-scale sites. Zach blends practical hands-on development in Angular, Ionic, Knockout and modern frontend patterns with stakeholder-focused product thinking to simplify complex workflows. He’s comfortable moving between greenfield startup innovation and production-grade corporate systems, with a knack for translating customer complexity into elegant UX. Based in Logan, Utah, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of evolving teams and interfaces at scale.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer