Zachary Iles
Sr Engineering Manager at nesto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZachary Iles is a senior engineering manager and pragmatic builder with 12 years of experience leading platform, AI, and security-focused teams across startups and large enterprises. He has held founding and leadership roles—from co‑founder & CTO of a healthcare tech IPO to senior platform leadership at HashiCorp and current Sr Engineering Manager at nesto—bringing deep expertise in developer experience, IAM, and AI-driven platform architecture. Recently he has partnered on a stealth AI startup focused on explainable and federated learning for secure, compliant inference, reflecting a blend of research-aware engineering and product pragmatism. Known on GitHub as a “coder of last resort,” he remains hands‑on and is comfortable diving into security, distributed systems, or data engineering problems. Based in Old Toronto, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a track record of shipping production systems that balance innovation, compliance, and scale.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, Advanced Diploma, Computer Software Engineering at Sheridan College
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Github Skills (126)
mongoose10
crud10
hashicorp9
elasticsearch9
discord9
terraform-provider9
nodejs9
mongodb9
client-library8
crypto8
chatbot8
jquery8
javascript8
command-line-tool8
telegram8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zackiles/elasticsearch-odm
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Like Mongoose but for Elasticsearch. Define models, preform CRUD operations, and build advanced search queries.
Contributions:63 commits, 4 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 6 months
crudelasticsearchmongoose
zackiles/udp-flood
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
floodpacketshostnode-jsnodejs
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