Zach Hale
Lead Software Engineer, UX Engineering at Bike Insights
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZach Hale is a Lead Software Engineer and UX-focused technologist with 18 years of experience building scalable web applications and shipping customer-driven products. He co-founded and leads the technical development of Bike Insights and Everyday Rides—two active, community-focused sites that combine complex geometry and data pipelines with polished front-end UX—while currently driving UX engineering at Cisco ThousandEyes. Zach is a full‑stack pragmatist who prefers solving problems at the user interface but regularly architects serverless backends, queues, and search-driven systems using React, Next.js, Node, GraphQL, AWS Lambda and SQS. He brings startup founder instincts to enterprise teams, pairing product design sensibility with deep hands-on work across databases, ElasticSearch, and Ruby on Rails. An open-source contributor to projects like Google’s Web Stories for WordPress, he blends accessibility and publishing UX improvements with measurable engineering outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Informatics, BS Informatics at University of Washington
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Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
javascript10
amp-stories10
google-amp10
react10
ampl10
accessibility9
css8
heroku6
api6
handlebars6
backbonejs6
dropdown-menu6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Web Stories for WordPress
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 34 commits, 35 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the front-end development of the "Web Stories for WordPress" project. Their work involved implementing accessibility improvements, enhancing the pre-publish checklist with text and media guidelines, and refactoring the page layouts tab structure. These changes included updating code, tests, and adding features related to the user interface.
wordpresswordpress-pluginampweb-stories
FormidableLabs/builder-react-app
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:79 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 10 months
reactarchetypebuilderwebpackreactjs
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