Zach Manson
Software Engineer at Termina
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Manson is a software engineer based in Melbourne with nine years' experience building full-stack and mobile systems, currently helping businesses reduce energy costs at Termina. He has delivered production services across Kotlin, React Native, Ruby on Rails, Go, Laravel and serverless stacks, and has experience operating on-call for live e-commerce and warehouse systems. Zach’s background includes geospatial web apps for international clients using Angular, Nest.js, Postgres, BigQuery and GCP, including dashboards for supply-chain and deforestation monitoring. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the Python-based SnakeWM userspace—adding UI features like painting, timers and hotkey-driven configuration—showing a taste for pragmatic UX improvements in low-level projects. Trained in computer science and cybersecurity with a data science minor, he combines practical backend reliability with front-end polish and an eye for operational resilience.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Majors: Computer Science Cybersecurity. Minor: Data Science, Bachelor of Science Majors: Computer Science Cybersecurity. Minor: Data Science at The University of Western AustraliaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Trinity College Perth
Github Skills (9)
uid10
window-management10
linux10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
pygame10
python10
operating-system10
json8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joshiemoore/snakeware
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
A free Linux distro with a Python-based userspace
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 13 PRs, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the UI and functionality of the SnakeWM, a Python-based Linux userspace. They implemented features like a clock, a calculator, and a stopwatch, enhancing the user experience. Significant changes include adding the ability to paint, read hotkey configurations from a JSON file, and modifying the snaketerm to display inputted commands and handle them correctly. Further contributions involved fixing sizing issues and refactoring existing UI components.
pythonuserspaceoperating-systemlinuxrpi4
zachpmanson/aquarium
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
A puzzle game written in Java called Aquarium.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
javapuzzlegameaquarium
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