Summary
Zack Burt is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience, currently applying his craft at Amazon Ads and based in New York. He blends product-minded business development with deep technical chops across React, Redux, Electron, Node.js, Rails, Salesforce APEX, PHP/WordPress, and low-level Linux/C++. Zack has a long track record in payments and financial systems—an early implementer of blockchain transaction handling (since 2013), plus hands-on work with PayPal and Stripe—paired with Series 65-level financial fluency. He excels in analytics, conversion funnels, regular expressions, batch processing of big-decimal financial data, and building data structures and algorithms from scratch. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions that bridge front-end UX and back-end reliability, he brings both entrepreneurial initiative and disciplined engineering to complex, revenue-driving products. A University of Chicago BA alumnus, he combines practical systems experience with a keen sense for monetization and operational correctness.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of Chicago
Spanish, Swedish, English