Zach Smith
Engineer at Fifty Years
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Smith is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building end-to-end systems and leading engineering teams across fintech and observability domains. Currently at Datadog, he previously served as Lead Architect at dv01 where he helped modernize infrastructure that provided real-time insight into $20B+ of loans, and as Head of Technology/CTO roles at growth-stage companies. He combines hands-on full‑stack development and devops with strategic architecture work, shipping reliable services that bridge backend systems and customer-facing experiences. An active open-source contributor, he improved DerbyJS’s build pipeline by adding configurable LESS and Stylus compilation and test coverage for asset tooling. Based in New York, he’s comfortable scaling teams and codebases in both startup and enterprise environments. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and skilled at turning complex lending and observability requirements into operational systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Minnesota-Morris
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
coffeescript10
stylus10
lessc10
testing9
nodejs9
moc9
mochajs9
web-framework9
build-automation8
front-end-development8
browserify6
big-o6
jquery6
git-hooks6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
derbyjs/derby
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on enhancing the DerbyJS framework's build process by integrating LESS and Stylus compilers. Their contributions involved adding LESS compilation support, concatenating LESS and Stylus outputs, and making the compiler order configurable. Additionally, the user added tests for both LESS and Stylus compilation, ensuring the correct integration of the new compilation features.
mvc-frameworknodejs
xcoderzach/touch-velocity
Jan 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
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