Zach Werkhoven
Backend Engineering Team Lead at Perch Insights
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Werkhoven is a Backend Engineering Team Lead in New York with a decade of experience bridging data science and software engineering to build scalable, production-grade backend systems. Currently leading engineers at Perch Insights, he architects data pipelines and ML-enabled services that power investor and entrepreneur insights, while closely aligning technical work with product and business goals. His background includes hands-on data science roles at Known and a PhD and postdoc in cellular and molecular biology from Harvard, giving him uncommon depth in experimental rigor and statistical thinking for production analytics. Comfortable moving between research and deployment, he brings a scientist’s curiosity to engineering trade-offs and a track record of shipping robust systems that handle large, heterogeneous data sources.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Clemson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Harvard UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
de-Bivort-Lab/margo
Sep 2016 - Sep 2022
High-throughput real-time tracker for delivery of stimuli and measurement of animal behavior.
Contributions:1 release, 575 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 1 month
margotracker
werkhoven/winsl0w.github.io
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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