Summary
Zachary Cotton is a software engineer based in Walnut Creek, CA with 11 years of hands-on experience and a strong academic foundation from UC Berkeley in Data Science and Computer Science. He builds production services—most recently at Roblox—and has practical experience designing model-serving infrastructure, having implemented a Scikit-learn model server from scratch during a Thumbtack internship. Zachary blends backend systems work with practical networking and ops experience (he managed house-wide networks and hardware at Berkeley Student Cooperative), which informs his focus on reliable, maintainable systems. He has a taste for translating research and legacy tools into extensible, object-oriented code, demonstrated by porting an R simulation suite into a reusable Python library with GUI and XML config support. Eager to learn and explore new languages and domains, he pairs curiosity with a track record of shipping implemented solutions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Data Science, 3.875, Bachelor's degree, Data Science, 3.875 at University of California, Berkeley