Zachary Wright
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Wright is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of full-stack experience building performant, pragmatic web applications, currently shaping platform work at Etsy. He favors simple, elegant solutions and brings deep Ruby on Rails and front-end experience (Vue) to complex product problems, having advanced from individual contributor to tech lead roles at Zillow Group before joining Etsy. Based in Lexington, KY, he pairs strong attention to detail and performance-minded engineering with clear communication—skills honed by a parallel life writing fiction. Colleagues benefit from his knack for translating ambiguous requirements into maintainable systems and readable code. Outside of work he remains an active reader and writer, which informs both his developer craft and team collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at University of Kentucky
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Github Skills (95)
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activerecord9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zacharyw/nuxt-rails-docker-boilerplate
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Boilerplate docker and docker-compose files to get up and running with rails and nuxt.js
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
dockerdocker-composenuxtrails
zacharyw/bootstrap3-form-builder
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 3 months
bootstrap4form-builderbootstrap-3railsruby
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