Zach Olivare
Founding Engineer at SkySlope
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolZach Olivare is a Lead Engineer with over a decade of experience designing accessible, cross-platform user interfaces and full-stack web applications using React, TypeScript, and modern frameworks. He has led high-impact projects—redesigning a 5,000+ daily user product with zero user disruption, architecting a $4M revenue product at SkySlope, and founding an AI-driven legal redaction startup where he owns end-to-end systems. A strong UX advocate and communicator, Zach builds shared design systems and utility libraries that eliminate duplicated code and increase developer velocity across multiple projects. He contributes to notable open-source work in DefinitelyTyped, improving TypeScript definitions to boost type safety for widely used libraries. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs hands-on engineering with security and accessibility stewardship, often tackling constrained environments from IoT to large-scale web platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
mips, sql, javascript, c#, python, java
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Github Skills (18)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
dts10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
azure-devops9
create-react-app9
azure9
angular6
dependency-properties6
binding6
android6
azure-devops-restapi6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on creating and refining TypeScript type definitions for the `react-filepond` library within the `definitelytyped` repository. Their contributions included defining interfaces, classes, and methods to improve the type safety and developer experience when using the library. They also addressed and resolved type-related errors and inconsistencies reported by the TypeScript compiler, ensuring accurate type definitions that align with the library's API. Furthermore, the user expanded server configurations and implemented multiple object methods.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
0livare/zach-blog-v4
Dec 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:298 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 9 months
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