Zackary Welch
Junior Software Engineer at iXsystems
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZackary Welch is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building backend services in C/C++, Java, Python, Go, and PHP and front-end interfaces using HTML/JS, jQuery, Angular/TypeScript, and Go-compiled WASM. At iXsystems he drives features for TrueCommand and the TrueNAS web UI, maintaining a Java vCenter plugin and migrating a PHP document management frontend to a Go/WASM stack. His open-source contributions include meaningful UX and editor enhancements to the Lumina Desktop and targeted UI fixes in TrueNAS, reflecting an attention to polish and usability. Beyond coding, he brings QA automation, data analysis, and documentation skills, plus comfort with Qt/GTK and both SQL and NoSQL databases. Based in Maryville, Tennessee, he pairs a BA in Computer Science with a practical, cross-stack mindset that favors incremental improvements and maintainable systems. An often-overlooked strength is his breadth of tooling fluency—shell scripting, R, LaTeX, and desktop UI toolkits—that helps him bridge gaps between system-level code and user-facing interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Maryville CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Maryville High School
Github Skills (16)
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javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
text-editor10
typescript-types9
python9
typescript9
typescripts9
file-management8
cprogramming-language7
css7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lumina-desktop/lumina
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Lumina Desktop Environment
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:185 commits, 110 pushes, 32 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Zackary's commits primarily involved the Lumina Desktop Environment, focusing on enhancements to the text editor and file manager. They implemented Python syntax highlighting rules and HTML/Javascript syntax highlighting. Additionally, the user contributed to the addition of the extract functionality, and made changes to the bookmarks feature.
windowsgraphical-user-interfacedesktop-environmentdesktoplumina
truenas/webui
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
TrueNAS UI
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 1 branch in 9 months
Contributions summary:Zackary primarily focused on front-end UI improvements and bug fixes within the TrueNAS web UI. Their contributions involved correcting spelling mistakes, updating helptext links, and changing the styling of UI elements, specifically adjusting bold text to italics. They also made minor adjustments to the layout and tooltip information for user forms and cloud sync functionalities.
truenasangular-uiangular
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