Zachary Schulze
Advisor - Product & Security Strategy
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Schulze is an experienced product and security strategist with eight years of hands-on engineering and leadership across application security, offensive testing, and infrastructure management. He currently advises product and R&D teams while holding senior application security leadership at SoFi, after roles at Uber, Red Ventures and a technical tenure in the US Marine Corps managing large enterprise environments. A pragmatic engineer, he’s an active open-source contributor to widely used security tooling—most notably contributing core functionality and DSL preprocessing to projectdiscovery/nuclei, a popular fast vulnerability scanner—and has added async scanning, error handling and tests to other network-scanning libraries. Zachary blends low-level systems know-how (Linux, AD, Exchange, virtualization) with modern appsec practices, threat emulation, and product-minded roadmap influence. He frequently represents organizations publicly and produces thought leadership on data security, demonstrating an uncommon mix of public-facing strategy and deep implementation experience.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Western Governors University
Github Skills (33)
unit-testing10
json10
apim10
compilation10
python10
gitlab-api10
network-analysis10
vulnerability-scanners10
security-scanner10
testing10
dsl10
go10
api10
compile10
golang10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
dzhibas/SublimePrettyJson
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Prettify/Minify/Query/Goto/Validate/Lint JSON plugin for Sublime Text 3 & 4
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 1 review, 92 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Sublime Text plugin for JSON manipulation. Their commits addressed formatting issues, refactored code, and added features such as improved JSON syntax highlighting and validation. The user also implemented functionality to enhance the user experience by integrating functionalities like JSON pretty printing and minifying, including a tool for jq integration. Furthermore, they contributed to file type detection and fixed compatibility issues.
gotoquerylinterlinttextmate
Ullaakut/nmap
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Idiomatic nmap library for go developers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the nmap library by implementing error handling and adding asynchronous scan functionality. They also focused on incorporating options for verbosity and debugging. Further, the user added testing capabilities by implementing tests with `go` and `testify`, which validates the functionality of various scanning methods and features.
golangidiomaticnmapauditsecurity
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