Zachary Hughes
Director Of Engineering, Safer at Thorn
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Hughes is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native products and leading teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering for Safer at Thorn. He rose through technical and leadership roles at Thorn—from senior engineer to staff and team lead—demonstrating a pattern of hands-on delivery combined with people management. His background includes cloud engineering and product development at Prefect and Cloudreach, where he also co-founded and chaired a regional diversity and inclusion initiative, showing commitment to culture as well as code. Trained in computer science and Chinese language and literature at William & Mary with study abroad at Tsinghua, he brings cross-cultural perspective to global engineering problems. Notably, he pairs practical infrastructure and Python expertise with experience translating customer-facing needs into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Chinese Language and Literature, Study Abroad Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Chinese Language and Literature, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Chinese Language and Literature at William & Mary
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
observability10
dataflow10
prefect10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
workflow-engine10
automation10
infrastructure10
pipeline10
orchestration10
aws7
sceptre7
correlation6
devops6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wearethorn/aws-sigv4-proxy
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
This project signs and proxies HTTP requests with Sigv4
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
http-requestsproxyhttp3signshttp-proxies
zdhughes/react-youtube-clone
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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