Zach Mcelrath
Lead Software Engineer at WATS
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolZach Mcelrath is a lead software engineer and enterprise architect with 14 years of experience building scalable, user-focused platforms and tooling. He co-created Skuid, a drag-and-drop UI builder for Salesforce, and has driven product strategy, large-scale architecture, and performance improvements across multiple companies including Narvar and WATS. Zach blends hands-on engineering with community building and developer advocacy, mentoring teams while prototyping new products and stabilizing complex systems. He favors sustainable, simple solutions that reduce boilerplate and operational friction, a mindset reflected in both his product work and his co-leadership of ZeroWasteChattanooga. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he pairs a BA in Physics with deep distributed-systems experience to translate messy real-world processes into reliable software. Colleagues know him as someone who both forges new paths and obsessively refines the ones already in use.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Covenant College
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (137)
salesforce-api10
postgresql10
to-do10
formulas10
portable10
javascript10
sql10
salesforce10
mysql10
salesforce-developers10
salesforce-rest-api10
sfdc10
sdk9
jsdoc9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TheCloudMasters/uesio-infra
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
UESIO cloud Infrastructure as code
Contributions:489 pushes in 1 year 2 months
skuid/skuid-sfdx
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
SFDX plugin for managing Skuid metadata
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 27 commits in 6 months
pluginsfdx-pluginmetadatasfdxskuid
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