Zachary St Lawrence
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolZachary St Lawrence is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems, currently leading DevOps-focused teams at Akamai. He blends hands-on development in Go, Java, Objective-C and JavaScript with deep expertise in databases, performance/capacity optimization and application security—often acting as developer, DBA, sysadmin and security analyst on the same project. His healthcare background includes HIPAA-compliant systems, HL7/EDI integrations and revenue-cycle workflows, giving him a strong track record in regulated, mission-critical domains. At Akamai he applies rules engines and statistical techniques for proactive health monitoring and customer self-service tooling, reflecting a data-driven approach to reliability. An MIT-trained engineer who cut his teeth on performance tooling at IBM and earlier game development, he brings both rigorous systems thinking and a practical, multi-role mindset to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
authentication10
azerothcore10
character-sheet10
scheme10
csharp10
akamai10
vtt10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
papi9
golang9
go8
cli6
pipeline6
java5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zstlaw/roll20-character-sheets
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
templateroll20sheetcharactercharacter-sheet
zstlaw/cli-property-manager
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Use this Property Manager CLI to automate Akamai property changes and deployments across many environments.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
cliproperty-managerakamaideploymentsenvironments
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