Zach Panzarino is a tech lead with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently guiding engineering at Dandy from New York. He blends hands-on full‑stack development with test automation expertise, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Cypress and Chart.js to improve testing infrastructure and build quality. Zach has startup chops as a two-time co-founder and a track record of shipping robust backend systems (e.g., an MLB GameDay API) and improving developer workflows. At Cypress.io he focused on growth engineering while also authoring tests and fixes that raised reliability for browser-based testing. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with highest honors and brings a pragmatic, QA-first mindset that catches issues before customers do. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who shifts smoothly between strategic leadership and hands-on coding.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Highest Honors, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Highest Honors at Georgia Institute of Technology
A Python API to retrieve and read MLB GameDay data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:25 releases, 485 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the development of an MLB GameDay data retrieval API using Python. Their work involved creating functions to fetch game data, implementing a dynamic scoreboard function, and establishing a class structure for handling game information. They also focused on improving the code's robustness by ensuring compatibility with Python 2.6+ and changing numerical values to integers within the code.
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:47 reviews, 924 commits, 188 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and functionality of the Cypress project. Their commits focused on enhancing the existing test suite by removing duplicate tests, fixing bugs in click events, and updating error messages in the context of plugins. The user also addressed issues in the component testing features of the project. Their contributions improved the overall quality and reliability of the Cypress testing framework, and also added several tests for studio functionality.
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