Zach Potter
Staff Engineer at Parabola
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Potter is a product-focused Staff Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building user-centered software and leading engineering teams. Currently at Parabola, he progressed from Senior Engineer to Tech Lead and now Staff Engineer, helping shape product direction while keeping a hands-on role in shipping features. His background at Square reflects experience scaling payments-related systems and collaborating across product and design to deliver polished, reliable user experiences. Zach treats technology as a medium for creativity and understanding, and explicitly prioritizes work with ethical, non-extractive impact. He combines practical leadership with deep engineering craft, mentoring teams to move quickly without sacrificing code quality.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (73)
nimble10
mastodon8
docker-compose8
keyboard-layout8
uinput8
keyboard-events8
golang7
keyboard7
docker7
ime7
docker-image7
rbac-authorization6
linux5
haskell5
access-control5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
googlearchive/collab-vim
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 2 months
zspotter/zspotter.github.io
May 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years
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