Zack Winter
Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarZack Winter is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building backend and systems infrastructure across startups and large tech companies. He specializes in distributed systems, low-level programming, build-and-test and developer infrastructure, and network engineering, currently leading Build and Test Infrastructure at MongoDB. His background spans game-engine level C++ networked systems to production-scale platform work at Facebook and Toyota Research Institute, giving him a rare blend of real-time systems and large-scale infrastructure experience. Known for moving between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he has repeatedly taken ownership of cross-cutting operational systems that improve developer velocity and reliability. Notably, his early work launching a 3D MMORPG startup demonstrates practical systems design and team leadership under constraints that still inform his infrastructure approach today.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
build-system10
clang-tidy10
cprogramming-language10
bazel10
software-quality9
quality-assurance9
linux8
git8
version-control8
windows7
macos7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-forks/bazel_clang_tidy
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Run clang-tidy on Bazel C++ targets directly, efficiently, with caching enabled
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 5 PRs in 11 months
mongodb-forks/c-ares
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
non-blockingnamed-pipesasynchronousdnsc-library
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