Zachary Drudi
Software Engineer at Yugabyte
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Drudi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and large tech companies, currently contributing at Yugabyte. His career includes engineering roles at Coursera and Google, and earlier work in storage and research at Coho Data and UBC, reflecting strong distributed systems and storage expertise. He holds a BMath from University of Waterloo and an MSc in Computer Science from UBC, blending rigorous mathematical training with research-driven engineering. Comfortable in both product-focused and infrastructure-heavy environments, he has repeatedly moved between academia, enterprise, and startup contexts. Colleagues know him for turning complex system requirements into reliable implementations and for fluency in the trade-offs of distributed databases. Based in Canada, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to solving performance and reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBMath, Mathematics, BMath, Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
databases10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
xmlrpc9
rpc9
snap8
snap-shot8
snapshots8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
druzac/adventofcode
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
druzac/pwdb
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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