Summary
Zachariah Cox is an engineering leader specializing in developer tools and repository security, currently serving as an Engineering Manager at NVIDIA after directing Repos engineering at GitHub. Over a 15+ year career spanning SAS, Microsoft, GitHub, and open-source projects, he has led large migrations, full-stack rewrites, and platform-scale initiatives (React front-ends, Vitess sharding, Go APIs) that improved reliability and developer velocity. He builds high-performing teams and operational tooling—graduating multiple managers, owning hiring and calibration processes, and designing division-wide dashboards to make technical debt visible. A maintainer of the SLSA.dev source track, he blends product-minded architecture with supply-chain security expertise. Based in Raleigh, he pairs deep systems and build-engine experience (multi-platform build orchestration and code generation) with a knack for translating complex SDLC constraints into pragmatic, auditable workflows.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Physics, Computer Science Physics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill