Zachary Pappis
Vice President, Insights at DuckDuckGo
Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Pappis is a seasoned technology and product leader with 13 years at DuckDuckGo, joining as the company's second employee and now serving as Vice President, Insights. He leads cross-functional teams responsible for search product development, conversion funnel optimization, and research that helped scale DuckDuckGo from a startup to the leading privacy-first search brand and the second-most trafficked mobile search engine in the U.S. Zachary combines hands-on engineering contributions—such as back-end work on DuckDuckGo’s Instant Answers repository—with strategic insight into user behavior and growth. Based in Malvern, PA, he pairs a finance background from Penn State with deep operational experience, making him adept at translating data-driven research into product decisions. Colleagues describe him as someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering, analytics, and user-focused product work.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, General at Penn State University
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Github Skills (6)
instant-view10
duckduckgo10
perl10
instantsearch10
web-development8
javascript4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Feb 2014 - Mar 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 82 PRs, 83 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zachary contributed to the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project by adding and refining internal links. They primarily worked on the `lib/DDG/Goodie/DuckDuckGo.pm` file, adding various links to DuckDuckGo's internal resources, help pages, and social media accounts. Further commits included minor adjustments and syntax improvements to existing links, along with the creation of a new Goodie related to "zekiel".
javascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersperlinstant
zekiel/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
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