Zach Goldstein is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading distributed teams and shipping resilient, production-grade systems across web, data, and infra. He’s transformed startups into reliable platforms—building an engineering org from two to twelve, introducing infra-as-code with Terraform, automated deployments, and testing practices that halved operational costs for live-event platforms. Hands-on across Go, Python, JS and cloud tooling, he moves between code, architecture, and on-call firefighting while partnering closely with founders on product and roadmap decisions. His background includes building high-throughput data pipelines, payment integrations, and seismology pipelines deployed on Kubernetes, demonstrating a knack for turning domain expertise into new revenue streams. Based in Toronto, he’s as comfortable prototyping hardware-connected products and games as he is stabilizing complex distributed services, bringing a pragmatic, experimentation-driven leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Recurse Center Participant
Systems Design Engineering, Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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