Zach Rausnitz
Board Member at Centaur.ai
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolZach Rausnitz is a self-taught, generalist software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and scaling data-focused products from newsroom tooling to AI training pipelines. As Co-Founder and CTO of Centaur, he leads technical strategy for a YC-backed startup that provides trusted, high-quality data annotation for sensitive domains such as healthcare, and now serves on its board. He combines hands-on backend work—illustrated by contributions improving an ORM’s reliability and timestamp behavior—with product instincts honed as an editorial-staff developer at Washington City Paper. Based in San Francisco, Zach blends startup leadership with practical engineering discipline, often tackling testing and QA improvements that reduce production surprises. His background in English and journalism gives him an uncommon ability to translate complex technical problems into clear requirements and customer-facing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
W19, W19 at Y CombinatorB.A., English, B.A., English at Brown UniversityRichard Montgomery High School
Github Skills (8)
swift10
orm10
vapor10
query-builder10
testing10
databases9
database9
sql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vapor/fluent
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Vapor ORM (queries, models, and relations) for NoSQL and SQL databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on enhancing the Vapor ORM, specifically the fluent package, by implementing timestamp update functionality and addressing related issues. Their work included modifying the query builder to automatically update timestamps, along with refactoring and updating tests related to this functionality. Additionally, the user improved existing test coverage by addressing various bugs and refining the test messages. These changes directly contribute to the reliability and functionality of the ORM.
relationsnosqlmysqlsqldatabases
rausnitz/fluent
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
🖋 Swift ORM framework (queries, models, and relations) for building NoSQL and SQL database integrations.
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
relationsnosqlsql-databasesqlswift
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