Zach Smith
Director Of Engineering at Light Water
Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Smith is a founder and solutions architect with a decade-plus of hands-on experience building enterprise-scale systems at the intersection of capital markets, automation, and data integrity. He has architected institutional-grade algorithmic trading infrastructure—designing a Python execution engine, OMS, and real-time reconciliation and risk controls deployed on AWS with 99.9% uptime. Zach specializes in eliminating manual operational drag using Python, Pandas/NumPy and SQL to deliver PII-compliant, automated pipelines that guarantee data integrity for financial reporting. He pairs deep technical implementation skills with operator instincts, having led distributed teams to productionize backtests, model lifecycle monitoring, and complex broker integrations. As an incoming MBA candidate, he uniquely combines product and P&L awareness with a developer’s attention to precision and automation. Based in Kentucky, he also experiments across stacks (OO PHP, TypeScript, NodeJS, Dart/Flutter), reflecting a pragmatic curiosity beyond his core fintech focus.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Indiana University SoutheastComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Louisville
English
Github Skills (90)
database9
html-editor9
ckeditor9
laravel-api9
redis9
bbcode8
reactable8
nosql8
wysiwyg8
vote8
rich-text-editor8
wordpress-plugin8
reaction8
strings8
rte8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zachisit/WordPress-OOP-Boilerplate
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
WordPress Object Oriented Plugin Boilerplate
Contributions:24 commits, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 11 months
boilerplateplugin-boilerplateobject-oriented-programmingwordpressphp
zachisit/lmf_twentyseventeen
Jun 2017 - Jul 2020
lmf wordpress theme
Contributions:10 PRs, 101 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years
wordpresswordpress-theme
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