Summary
Zachary Klinger is a Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and shipping MVPs and production systems for startups and Fortune 500 clients. He blends front-end mastery in React and TypeScript with backend expertise in Node.js, Express, Prisma/Postgres and AWS, and has designed APIs, schemas and CI-friendly automated test frameworks. His background in 3D animation, photography and motion capture informs a pragmatic eye for UX and real-time systems鈥攈e even led mocap pipelines and helped build a real-time VR pre-viz camera in Unreal. At Nike he modernized tooling, implemented distributed tracing, and automated operational workflows with Lambdas and Slack apps; at Shard he delivered fintech and social apps with robust auth and migration strategies. Comfortable across cloud providers and both SQL and NoSQL datastores, he brings a creative, multidisciplinary perspective to solving engineering and product problems. Based in Oakland, Nebraska, he pairs visual-effects roots with production-grade software practices to move concepts into reliable, testable shipping products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Fulcrum Pilot Program, Javascript, Front End Web Development, Fulcrum Pilot Program, Javascript, Front End Web Development at Hack Reactor
BA, Photography, BA, Photography at Arizona State University
Post bachelorette program, Computer Science, 4.0 (6 units), Post bachelorette program, Computer Science, 4.0 (6 units) at Portland State University
Computer Science, 3.33 (11 units), Computer Science, 3.33 (11 units) at Saddleback College