Zach Minster
Software Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Minster is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends classroom-founded leadership with production software delivery at Amazon. After founding and scaling a computer science department that reached over half the student body, he transitioned to mission-driven product teams where he contributes to full-stack systems and iterative improvement. He has hands-on experience building LMS features in Node/Vue/PostgreSQL, designing curriculum-grade learning experiences, and shipping web and backend work from internships through professional roles. Known for creating scalable programs—like a Teaching Assistantship model and an outreach summer camp serving predominantly underrepresented students—he brings user-centered design and operational rigor to engineering problems. Based in Seattle, he pairs pedagogy-informed communication with practical coding chops to help cross-functional teams move faster and more inclusively. Colleagues describe him as a continuous improver who leverages feedback loops from students and users alike to iterate effectively.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B., Computer Science, Sc.B., Computer Science at Brown UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Ursinus CollegePerkiomen Valley High School
Github Skills (2)
camp5
mozilla1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zminster/spark-display
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
zminster/experiments
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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