Summary
Zach Metcalf is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience building reliable, maintainable web services and front-end applications across Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, and modern JS frameworks. He excels at migrating monoliths to microservices, designing serverless APIs, and automating CI/CD and Docker-based development environments, with hands-on AWS experience including ECS, ECR, Lambda, DynamoDB and RDS. Known for finding the peskiest bugs, he pairs disciplined test-driven practices with pragmatic DevOps skills and on-call support to keep systems robust in production. Zach has a track record of enabling teams—running Node.js training, setting up pipelines, and bootstrapping new services—and brings a background in both enterprise (Aetna, Charter) and consultancy work. Based in Parker, Texas, he combines a finance-oriented B.S. with Navy administrative discipline, which surfaces in his methodical approach to problem solving and documentation.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Business Administration, Finance, Bachelors of Science, Business Administration, Finance at University of Maryland Global Campus