Zack Urben
Senior Software Engineer (IC4) at Dropbox
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Urben is a senior software engineer with 12 years building high-performance web and security tooling across startups and enterprises, currently at Dropbox after leading multiple cross-functional teams there. He’s a full‑stack JavaScript specialist who values UNIX philosophy and has driven backend reliability, onboarding, and team activation work while also acting as tech lead for admin and team experiences. At Sony and Form.io he helped pioneer internal OSS, security engineering tools, and core platform features, and his early work includes bespoke integrations using Redis, Resque, and AWS. An active open-source contributor, Zack has improved GitLab SDK functionality in the widely used gitbeaker repo and contributed key backend features to the Form.io platform. Curious and pragmatic, he blends system design with hands-on implementation to deliver elegant, testable solutions for complex web stacks. Based in Dallas, he brings a security-minded, performance-first approach informed by both product and infrastructure experience.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. of Computer Science, B.S. of Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasB.S. of Computer Science, B.S. of Computer Science at Collin College
Github Skills (15)
gitlab10
typescript10
nodejs10
javascript10
typescripts10
label10
api10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
testing9
apim8
api-design8
graphql6
wordpress-graphql6
wpgraphql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
formio/formio
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
A Form and Data Management Platform for Progressive Web Applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:529 commits, 96 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the formio project by implementing core backend logic and making improvements to the server-side functionality. Their work included adding internal server components for testing, integrating debugging tools, and fixing existing functionality. The commits show a focus on backend development within the context of a progressive web application platform. The user also worked on core backend component.
reactdata-managementweb-applicationsserverlessvanillajs
jdalrymple/gitbeaker
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
🦊🧪 A comprehensive and typed Gitlab SDK for Node.js, Browsers, Deno and CLI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zack primarily contributed to the `gitbeaker` repository by implementing and modifying core functionalities related to GitLab's API. Their work focused on enhancing the label management capabilities, including adding features for group labels and refactoring the label service to use a resource label template. They also addressed linting and formatting issues, along with merging updates from a related repository, integrating and improving the project's structure.
apigitlab-apibrowsernode-jsgitlab
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