Zach Leigh
Staff Software Engineer Devops Engineer at Digistorm
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolZach Leigh is a Staff Software Engineer and DevOps practitioner with 11 years building full-stack web applications from Chiba, Japan, currently leading platform and infrastructure efforts at Digistorm. He specializes in PHP and JavaScript, with hands-on experience in Laravel, Vue, AWS, Docker, and a strong advocacy for test-driven development and agile practices. Zach has progressed from web developer to technical lead roles, blending feature development, CI/CD and operational ownership across multiple teams. He contributes to open collaborative projects like Tatoeba, improving UX and messaging features, showing a knack for pragmatic improvements to community platforms. An anthropology graduate, he brings a human-centered perspective to engineering decisions and team collaboration, balancing technical depth with product empathy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Anthropology, Bachelor’s Degree, Anthropology at Western State Colorado University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
395reputation
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Github Skills (15)
php10
javascript9
user-interface8
sql8
database-design7
lang7
drag-and-drop6
linguistics6
unit-testing6
lamp6
hash6
vue6
murmurhash6
eloquent6
mysql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Tatoeba/tatoeba2
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Tatoeba is a platform whose purpose is to create a collaborative and open dataset of sentences and their translations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 25 PRs, 70 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the application's features and user experience. They implemented a setting to hide random sentences and added the functionality to make sentence lists uneditable. Furthermore, they worked on improving the private messaging system by adding draft features and fixing related issues. They also addressed birthday validation within the user profile, and enhanced the overall system with improvements.
sentencetranslationtatoebadatabasecodebase
zachleigh/laravel-lang-bundler
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:16 releases, 76 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 11 months
translationphplaravellocalizationbundles
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