Zachary Smith
Staff Software Engineer at Credit Karma
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorZachary Smith is a Staff Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader in Seattle with over a decade of hands-on engineering experience and nearly 20 years guiding product development, design thinking, and client services across startups, finance, automotive, and enterprise software. He blends systems-level engineering—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile systemd project improving hibernation and tmpfiles behavior—with strategic leadership roles at Credit Karma, Substantial, and his own consultancy, ZAXMYTH. Known for coaching teams and shaping engineering culture, he also co-founded a large Seattle design-thinking community and helps strengthen K-12 focused nonprofits through Social Venture Partners. Zachary moves fluidly between deep technical contributions and human-centered organizational transformation, favoring pragmatic, testable solutions that scale. His background in build and systems engineering gives him a rare operational sensitivity for reliability and deployment concerns that informs his architecture and product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
c1710
init10
system10
systemd10
linux10
c1110
system-programming9
filesystem9
file-management9
low-level-programming9
low-level9
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zachsmith/systemd
May 2019 - Jan 2021
The systemd System and Service Manager
Contributions:179 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 8 months
service-managerlinuxsystemd
zachsmith/public
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 7 years
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