Summary
Zachary Parks is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing .NET-based systems and front-end applications. He has a strong track record leading rewrites from legacy ASP/Classic stacks to .NET Core and Angular, introducing generic service patterns, clean DTO mapping, and predictable REST conventions that uplift team productivity. Zachary pairs backend architecture work with pragmatic front-end fixes and telemetry-driven improvements—reducing noisy logging, implementing Application Insights, and tuning UX integrations for real-world data. He has experience extracting monolith features into Azure Functions and improving testability by breaking up oversized classes, while mentoring teams on agile practices and code quality. Recently he’s applied RLHF techniques as a freelance AI analyst, testing LLMs in STEM and software domains, which informs his emphasis on correctness and instruction-following in tooling. Based in Pennsylvania, he blends hands-on engineering with a habit of eliminating technical debt to deliver maintainable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at PennWest California