Zach Nation
Software Engineer at Hugging Face
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZach Nation is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-facing frameworks and production systems, currently contributing to Hugging Face from Seattle. He co-created Apple’s Swift Charts and worked on Core ML, bringing deep expertise in data visualization, machine learning tooling, and developer UX. His background spans large-platform engineering at Microsoft and Apple to startup-scale work at XetData and Dato, where he led efforts in streaming aggregation, static site tooling, and front-end/data infrastructure. An active open-source maintainer, he’s fixed documentation and kept the Turi Create ML docs healthy—resolving broken links and removing deprecated APIs—demonstrating attention to polish as well as architecture. Known for bridging product-grade UI with robust back-end systems, he combines practical shipping velocity with long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apple/turicreate
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:8 releases, 8 reviews, 145 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on fixing documentation issues, particularly resolving 404 errors and broken links within the Turi Create documentation. They updated links to archived resources and corrected markdown syntax in various user guides. The user also removed deprecated features from the linear regression user guide, such as methods that are no longer available.
pythondeep-learningmachine-learningcoremlmulticlass-classification
znation/simplex
Jan 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:72 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
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