Zach Porter
Senior Software Engineer at Take Time for Art
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Porter is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building web applications, particularly with Ruby on Rails and increasingly with Elixir/Phoenix. He’s shipped production systems across healthcare, clinical decision support, and education—helping teams move faster by surfacing edge cases and simplifying solutions. Comfortable across the stack, he’s worked with GraphQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Vue.js while mentoring peers and introducing Elixir into client projects. Beyond day job work, he built a self-driven Elixir/Phoenix art-history platform for homeschoolers, showing a pragmatic appetite for learning new languages through real projects. Based in Durham, NC, he blends hands-on coding with thoughtful technical leadership to deliver reliable, maintainable software.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Ashland University
Github Skills (54)
cancel10
optimistic9
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
flux9
html9
activerecord8
react8
elixir8
ruby-on-rails8
to-do8
redux8
nodejs8
hugo-theme8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zporter/rails
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
zporter/zachporter.dev
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Personal blog
Contributions:4 PRs, 112 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 11 months
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