Zack Olson
Senior Software Engineer at Kolide
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Olson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems using Go, PHP/Symfony, JavaScript, AWS, Postgres/MySQL, Redis and Linux networking technologies. He combines practical backend and networking expertise—Linux Netfilter and routing—with a front-end toolkit (HTML/CSS/JS) to deliver end-to-end solutions at companies like Kolide, Aspiration, and Datto. His academic background in cognitive psychology and cybersecurity gives him a rare perspective on user behavior, threat models, and secure system design. Comfortable across the stack, Zack has progressed from individual contributor to staff-level roles, often working on hard infrastructure problems that bridge networking and application code. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs disciplined engineering with curiosity about human factors in security, which informs pragmatic, resilient implementations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity at Southern New Hampshire UniversityBachelor's degree, Psychology, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Philosophy at SUNY GeneseoSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at App Academy
Spanish
Github Skills (16)
golang10
linux10
go-kit10
osquery10
devops10
packager10
launcher10
grpc10
standard-library5
thrift5
cassandra-driver3
cassandra2
datastax2
metadata1
database1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zackattack01/portfolio
Sep 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
zackattack01/basketball_heatmaps
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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