Zachary Zhuang-thatcher
Lead Software Developer at LS Power
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Thatcher is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with seven years of experience building and scaling backend cloud and big data infrastructure, currently focusing on Python and Java. He specializes in designing systems that support diverse access patterns—both user-driven and event-driven—for battery operations at Geli. His background in C/C++ and materials science gives him a rare combination of low-level systems thinking and data-focused cloud engineering, evidenced by a >100x query performance improvement and a deployed unsupervised clustering app on GCP during his research work. Zachary has practical experience across embedded software, scientific-data microservices, and techno-economic modeling, which helps him bridge domain expertise and production software. He tends to favor pragmatic, measurable performance wins and automation, from prototyping FastAPI services to automating financial and analysis workflows.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Materials Science, Master of Science - MS, Materials Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Science (BS), Material Science Engineering, 3.86/4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Material Science Engineering, 3.86/4.00 at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (28)
php10
cms9
csv8
database8
yaml7
code-generation7
dataclass7
code-generator7
typeddict6
swagger6
generator6
python6
openapi-codegen6
dataclasses6
avro6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zthatch/hello-world
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
my first repo
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
python
zthatch/regolith
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Research Group Content Managment System
Contributions:64 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 1 month
cmsmanagmentphpmanagment-systemresearch-group
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