Zachary Buhman
Senior Software Development Engineer at Verizon Media
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarZachary Buhman is a Senior Software Development Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and improving test automation across large-scale platforms. He has shifted from operations and SRE roles at Linode, Rackspace and Twitter into senior engineering at Verizon Media, bringing operational rigor to software delivery. An active open-source contributor, he improved compatibility and testing in the notable Trio async I/O Python library, adding IPv4/IPv6 socket tests and richer file I/O coverage. Zachary favors functional languages—Lisp, Haskell, Erlang—bringing a language-agnostic, correctness-first approach to concurrency and systems code. Practical, detail-oriented, and comfortable across the stack, he blends production reliability experience with a taste for elegant, well-tested implementations.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
async-await10
tripledes10
triple10
structured-concurrency10
triplet10
pytest10
io10
python10
triplestore10
networking10
asyncio10
testing10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
python-trio/trio
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Trio – a friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:63 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 25 days
Contributions summary:Zachary contributed to the Trio library by addressing compatibility issues with Python 3.5, specifically related to path handling and file I/O. They refactored code for improved readability and maintainability, and introduced new tests for socket functionality, covering both IPv4 and IPv6. The user also replaced deprecated or less accurate test protocols with more reliable ones and significantly improved testing coverage, including the addition of comprehensive tests for file I/O operations.
python-librarypythontrioasynchronousasync-await
ptpb/pb_cli
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
no bullshit pb client
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
no-bullshitpythonbullshit
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