Zack Kayser
Staff Software Engineer at Cars Commerce
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Kayser is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently leading engineering work at Cars Commerce in Orlando. He brings a functional-first mindset as an Elixir and FP enthusiast, driving robust backend solutions and platform improvements across the commerce stack. Zack progressed through multiple senior roles at Cars Commerce after earlier full-time development work at Gaslight, demonstrating steady technical growth and ownership of complex projects. His background includes international experience as a lead corporate instructor and translator in Japan, which sharpened his communication, curriculum design, and cross-cultural collaboration skills. He also studied iOS app development with Swift and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics, reflecting a blend of product-minded engineering and analytical rigor. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs language fluency and teaching experience with a passion for elegant, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
学士 (Bachelor's Degree) Economics, 学士 (Bachelor's Degree) Economics at Miami UniversityiOS App Development with Swift Specialization, iOS App Development with Swift Specialization at University of Toronto
Japanese, English
Github Skills (46)
elixir10
poker10
otp10
phoenix-framework10
liveview10
phoenix-channels10
elm9
scrabble9
phoenix-liveview9
gleam9
view-helpers9
ecto8
erlang8
erlang-otp8
beam8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zkayser/elm_scrabble
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Scrabble with Elm and Elixir
Contributions:147 commits, 4 PRs, 151 pushes in 1 year 2 months
elmelixirscrabble
carsdotcom/pacer
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 13 reviews, 17 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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