Summary
Zach Hall is a Senior Developer based in Greater Chattanooga who builds full-stack applications with a focus on JavaScript, ColdFusion, and modern tooling like React, Node.js, and TypeScript. With three years of software engineering experience and a background managing complex projects, he combines practical backend skills (SQL/NoSQL, Express, Deno) with front-end visualization—co-creating Branch, a VS Code extension that scrapes and renders RESTful routes as interactive D3 trees. He’s comfortable shipping CI/CD pipelines, writing robust Jest/Supertest tests, and leveraging ripgrep and Webview APIs to bridge developer ergonomics and real-world codebases. An active open-source contributor, Zach has applied his product instincts to both consumer and developer tools while maintaining discipline from earlier project management roles. Outside of engineering he’s an avid outdoorsman—often exploring the Cohutta Wilderness or paddling the Conasauga River—which informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to building dependable software.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kennesaw State University