Zachary Baird
Software Developer at Stoketech
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Baird is a full-stack software developer with eight years of experience building enterprise and open-source web applications, currently working at Caesars Entertainment and previously architecting solutions at Stoketech. He spans front-end frameworks (Vue, Nuxt, React) and robust back-end stacks (.NET Core, Ruby on Rails) and has designed realtime features using SignalR and RabbitMQ-backed microservices. As a former maintainer of The Odin Project, he contributed curriculum, UI tweaks, routing fixes, and submission tooling—demonstrating a commitment to developer education and community-driven OSS. His work mixes practical DevOps and database experience (Azure, Postgres, RavenDB, MongoDB) with a history of modernizing legacy systems in healthcare and defense contexts. Based in Harrisburg, PA, he balances hands-on coding with system architecture, and brings an unusual combination of curriculum design insight and production-grade scheduling and fleet-management platforms.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer Informations & Roman History, Associates Computer Informations & Roman History at SUNY Broome Community College
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
front-end-development9
html9
css9
git6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TheOdinProject/theodinproject
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Main Website for The Odin Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 20 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the Odin Project's curriculum website, focusing on both front-end and back-end modifications. They added new lessons and updated existing course content. Furthermore, they were involved in modifying project submission features by adding sorting options and toggling visibility. Additionally, the user made changes to the site's styling and fixed routing redirects.
ruby-on-railscurriculumcssjavascriptruby
ZachBaird/theodinproject
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Main Website for The Odin Project
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 4 months
odinthe-odin-project
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