Zachary Rice
Principal Software Engineer at Vantage Systems, Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Rice is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in cloud-native architecture, DevOpsSec, and scalable geospatial data pipelines for NASA Earth science applications. Based in Washington, D.C., he leads the migration and modernization of NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services and Worldview, building ingestion pipelines and CI/CD workflows with Node.js, Python, Terraform and AWS. He blends hands-on front-end work (React/Redux) with backend and operational expertise—automating secure deployments, monitoring, and autoscaling for high-throughput satellite imagery services. Known for turning legacy codebases into testable, maintainable systems, he also presents technical work publicly and mentors operators and developers across distributed teams. A detail that sets him apart: he’s worked end-to-end on both the visualization clients and the cloud ingest pipelines that power the imagery scientists and the public rely on.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, 3.86 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, 3.86 GPA at Kaplan UniversityHigh School, 3.75 GPA, High School, 3.75 GPA at Catoctin High Scool
English, German
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Github Skills (97)
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cesiumjs10
branding10
imagery10
earth-science10
satellite10
html-webpack-plugin10
gulp10
data-visualization10
multi-page10
satellite-imagery10
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javascript9
tree-sitter9
maps9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bootpack/favicons-plugin
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Generate favicons with webpack!
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
webpack-pluginwebpackfaviconswebpack4
ZachTRice/chilly-vscode-dark-theme
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
A "Chilly" Visual Studio Code dark theme featuring blue fonts and dark backgrounds.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 months
bluevisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionfonts
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