Summary
Zack Verham is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience blending research-grade computer vision and machine learning with production web and data engineering. A UVA double alumnus (BS and MS in CS, near-perfect GPA) and former research assistant, he has shipped parallelized image-processing tooling on Hadoop and applied neural methods to image editing. In industry he’s focused on full-stack systems, robust test suites, and production analytics—working extensively with React and Apache Spark before moving into platform engineering at Posit/RStudio. Known for deep concentration and pragmatic creativity, he excels at taking complex ML research into reliable, scalable software. Outside formal roles he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering, evidenced by long-standing commitments to both research projects and enterprise feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced High School Degree, 4.0/4.0, Advanced High School Degree, 4.0/4.0 at Hanover High School
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Virginia
English, Spanish