Zach Mccormick
Senior Staff Engineer at Braze
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Mccormick is a Senior Staff Engineer based in New York with 12 years building and managing global-scale distributed systems across marketing automation, fintech, IoT, healthcare, and mobile security. At Braze he leads the engineering efforts behind Canvas, a workflow engine that orchestrates hundreds of millions of messages per day, and has driven architectural rework, incident remediation, and organizational improvements that improved stability and delivery. He combines deep hands-on expertise across Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and multiple databases with strong operational instincts—having led root-cause hunts for race conditions, hardware failures, and subtle DB driver concurrency bugs. As a former engineering manager and founder, he pairs people leadership and onboarding content creation with practical system design, from job back-pressure systems to componentized messaging pipelines. He also brings a history of applied research and product work, including APM tooling, machine learning pipelines for healthcare data, and mobile sensing projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.5, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.5 at Vanderbilt University
English
Stackoverflow
903reputation
95kreached
22answers
6questions
Github Skills (179)
braze10
python10
user-feedback10
authentication10
fact-checking10
xadmin10
ruby-client10
heroku10
flask10
login-system10
django10
haml10
mongodb-driver10
task-scheduler10
queue10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ColossusInnovation/django-gis-on-heroku
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Django with GIS support, made for scale on Heroku
Contributions:19 reviews, 82 commits, 124 PRs in 4 years 1 month
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zachmccormick/resume
Jul 2018 - Sep 2024
My current resume in LaTeX and rendered PDF
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
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