Zach Royer
Senior Software Engineer at NerdWallet
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolZach Royer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-facing web products from startup to scale, currently driving registration and developer-facing features at NerdWallet. He specializes in modern front-end stacks—React, GraphQL, Storybook, and Testing Library—while also bringing full-stack experience with Node, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD practices. Zach has a track record of shipping polished UX for consumer fintech, ecommerce, and logistics platforms at companies like Shipwell, Sunroom Rentals, and Cratejoy. He combines a product-minded approach with disciplined engineering, favoring testable, design-aligned components that delight users and reduce support costs. Based in San Diego with a degree in Economics from UT Austin, he often bridges product and engineering conversations to turn business problems into measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Economics at The University of Texas at Austin
English, javascript
Github Skills (45)
angular-app9
drag9
drag-and-drop9
yeoman9
pug9
react8
drift8
kanban8
javascript8
nodejs8
yeoman-generator7
sass7
typescript7
mongodb7
tinder7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zroyer/react-carabiner
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
A React Hook to copy to the clipboard 🧗♀️
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 months
reactclipboardreactjshookreact-hook
zroyer/climbing-wall
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
A safe place to play with react-carabiner 🧗♀️
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
placereactplace-to-playreactjssafe
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.