Zachary Collins
Software Engineer at Candid Health
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Collins is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-availability backend systems and leading complex refactors for regionally distributed deployments. Based in San Francisco, he has driven hybrid-cloud and siloed architectures at Sentry, contributed Kafka-backed UserIP publishing and consumer logic to the widely used getsentry/sentry project, and led platform reliability and refactoring efforts across startups and enterprise teams. He pairs a pragmatic, "built-for-failure" engineering philosophy with hands-on expertise in Python, Django, and DevOps, and has repeatedly balanced IC work with engineering leadership and cross-organizational planning. Outside work he pursues a van-and-tent lifestyle that reflects a preference for practical minimalism and thoughtful trade-offs in both engineering and life.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Economics, Japanese Economics at Kansai College of Business and LanguagesNihongo, Nihongo at Kansai Gaidai UniversityBA Computer Science Music, BA Computer Science Music at Hendrix College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
kafka10
python10
back-end-development10
message-queue10
django10
testing10
devops9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1384 reviews, 119 commits, 546 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zachary's primary contributions focus on implementing core back-end functionality, specifically related to publishing UserIP logs to a Kafka producer for control silos. They enabled feature flag backed ability to publish UserIP entries, writing code using Python and Django. The user also worked on testing and consumer-related components, including configuration and message handling, demonstrating experience in Kafka integration within the broader system. The user’s work also touches upon the infrastructure of the project's region to control logic.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
corps/ben-srs
Jun 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 274 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 10 months
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