Zach Howell
Open Source Developer - Benchmarking Cloud at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Howell is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building and benchmarking cloud systems, currently focusing on open-source tooling for performance measurement at Google. He has driven large-scale billing migrations and delivered 10x performance improvements through caching, parallelization, and algorithmic optimization. At Google he benchmarks serverless, container, Kubernetes, and AI platform offerings across major cloud providers and improves PerfKitBenchmarker and associated automation. His background spans low-level C++ graphics work, full-stack cloud flows, and indie game development—evidence of both systems-level rigor and product curiosity. Based in Seattle and an active union member, he blends pragmatic engineering with collaborative advocacy. A less obvious strength is his knack for turning research-grade benchmarking into repeatable, production-ready dashboards and teardown automation.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Game Programming and Development, Sophomore, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Game Programming and Development, Sophomore at Drexel UniversityCary High
Github Skills (45)
benchmark10
azure-functions10
benchmarking10
reflect10
aws-lambda10
latency10
aws10
serverless-framework10
apache9
google-cloud-functions9
aws-dynamodb9
sam9
amazon9
aws-sam9
lambda9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hubatish/zach-website
May 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
hubatish/chat-app-tutorial
Dec 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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