Zach Mcfadden
Senior Software Engineer at Workday
Pleasanton, California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Mcfadden is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating production software at Workday, where he has progressed through roles from systems and automation engineering to senior developer and team lead. Based in Pleasanton, he pairs a UCLA cognitive science background with a Master’s in Computer Science from ASU, blending user-focused thinking with solid systems and DevOps expertise. He’s comfortable across languages, frameworks and infrastructure, and brings hands-on leadership to long-lived enterprise services. Outside work Zach composes video games and teaches guitar, a mix that surfaces in a playful personal website puzzle revealing more about his interests. A Bay Area-based science enthusiast and lifelong learner, he balances production-grade engineering with creative side projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science, Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Diablo Valley CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
python-requests9
python9
http9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xxdunedainxx/CSUMB_SSBU_Study
Aug 2024 - May 2026
Experiment code for a 'Super Smash Bros Ultimate', cognitive research study, where we are attempting to observe various cognitive capabilities in relationship to players of super smash brothers.
Contributions:6 PRs, 36 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
xxdunedainxx/space-trail-game-demo
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
repo for my first unity project
Contributions:6 PRs, 55 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
unity3dunity-projectunity
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