Zach Goldberg
Chief Executive Officer at Executive Tech Leadership Coaching
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Goldberg is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with 16 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams across startups and fintech, currently leading Gruntwork after serving as its CTO. He blends a founder’s mentality with rigorous, repeatable engineering practices—arguing that software development should be treated more like science than art—and teaches those principles through executive coaching and his book, The Startup CTO's Handbook. Zach has a track record of stepping into early-stage and interim CTO roles to turn around delivery, hiring, and culture at companies like Equi, Dama Financial, and AutoLotto. Based in Los Angeles, he also founded Advance The World to spark youth interest in STEM through experiential programs involving airplanes and race cars. A lifelong reader who publishes public book reports and reading lists, he pairs continuous learning with practical playbooks for technical leadership. He regularly mentors executives and founders, offering intro coaching calls to translate his playbook into measurable team outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science and Engineering Computer Science, Bachelors of Science and Engineering Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, French, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (175)
expressjs10
testing10
terraform10
infrastructure10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
markdown10
opentofu10
graphql-api10
mbaas10
architecture10
thin10
packer10
decision-making10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ZachGoldberg/Startup-CTO-Handbook
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book covering leadership, management and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 14 PRs in 1 year 5 months
ZachGoldberg/Personal-Cluster-Manager
Dec 2010 - Jul 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 3 years 7 months
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