Zack Petersen
Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZack Petersen is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems and payments infrastructure. He has driven core trading platform work at Robinhood and led design and delivery of Go and Erlang microservice architectures for Visa’s next-generation payment processing and in-country authorization systems. Zack combines deep mainframe and low-level transaction experience (C++/Assembly on zTPF) with modern cloud-native practices, deployment automation, and operational ownership across international data centers. Known for clean code and practical design docs, he focuses on reliability and performance in mission-critical systems while mentoring teams on engineering standards.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (48)
kotlin10
messenger10
signal10
integrate9
java9
android9
build-time8
aws-security7
headlessui7
visualizations7
accessibility7
static-analysis7
gcp7
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Github contributions (5)
zachpetersen/zachpetersen.github.io
Aug 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
zachpetersen/DnD
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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