Zach Nowicki
Director Of Operations
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolZach Nowicki is an operations and logistics leader with nearly two decades of experience scaling distribution networks, optimizing cold-chain and beverage logistics, and managing budgets up to $40M across teams of 50–300. He has a proven record of unifying operations during complex acquisitions, leading ERP/WMS implementations (including SAP), and introducing lean principles that measurably cut costs and incidents. Known for building high-performing, diverse teams in both union and non-union environments, Zach combines data-driven decision making with diplomacy to negotiate contracts and secure supplier partnerships. He also brings a curious technical bent—contributing backend enhancements to an open-source Ruby Discord API—reflecting a hands-on problem-solving style beyond traditional operations. Based in the Twin Cities, he pairs strategic planning with front-line engagement to deliver reliable service and continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at University of Wisconsin-StoutCertificate of completion Critical Thinking, Certificate of completion Critical Thinking at Harvard Business School of San Diego
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
api10
apidoc10
discord10
package-development10
googlebot9
bots9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
discordrb/discordrb
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
Discord API for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 233 commits, 259 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the development of the Discord API for Ruby, specifically adding new features and methods. They implemented API support for retrieving specific messages, added and modified methods for role management, including bulk role assignment and modification. The user also enhanced the library with basic reaction support and implemented functionality for channel management tasks such as deleting messages.
apidiscorddiscord-botrubydiscord-api
z64/rate_limiter
Oct 2017 - May 2020
A rate limiter implementation in Crystal
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
limiterrate-limitercrystal
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