Zach Vorhies
Software Engineer at Blast.Video
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Vorhies is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, including eight years building embedded C++ systems at Google and YouTube that scaled into a significant fraction of a billion users. He combines deep Chrome browser and embedded expertise with full‑stack and Android experience, plus production Linux and microcontroller (ESP32) skills. A prolific open-source contributor and high-velocity coder—51k commits in 2023—he develops reusable building blocks and custom deployment tooling, often leveraging complex Docker and automated QA infrastructure. Zach also brings product and founder experience from startups and consumer hardware ventures, and has iterated a custom AI coding assistant that he says quadruples his productivity. Based in San Francisco, he is a pragmatic problem solver who can jump into any codebase and deliver immediate impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science & Math & Psychology, BS Computer Science & Math & Psychology at University of Oregon
c++, java, obj-c, javascript
Stackoverflow
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graphviz
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
swagger10
ubuntu10
rsync10
visual-studio10
cloud-platform10
command-line-tool10
openapi10
espressif10
browser10
firefox10
api10
swagger-ui10
json10
llama10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zackees/ytclip
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
zackees/pydeepspeech
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Easy setup for Mozillas Deepspeech transcriber
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 9 months
transcribereasy-setupdeepspeech
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