Summary
Zachary Hill is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building automation and compliance solutions that convert manual, error-prone processes into reliable, scalable systems. He specializes in high-performance backend services in Go and scalable APIs with Node.js/TypeScript, while also delivering intuitive React-based UIs for data monitoring and analysis. His enterprise experience includes feature and product ownership at PayPal—where he shipped a cart recovery SDK, integrated predictive retail AI, and built cross-device synchronization tooling—and recent senior engineering roles consulting on architecture and deployments. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, Neo4j), and API styles (GraphQL/REST), he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and operational pragmatism. Based in Peoria, Illinois, Zachary brings a focus on observability and automation that surfaces hidden failure modes before they impact customers.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer