Zak Nitsch
Software Developer at Arctic Wolf
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZak Nitsch is a pragmatic full-stack software developer with 11 years of experience, currently building production software at Arctic Wolf from Old Toronto. He specializes in Clojure/ClojureScript and front-end engineering, having shipped web and video-calling products using React, TypeScript, Node, and robust testing/CI practices. Early adoption of Lisps led him to deepen his theoretical grounding with Coursera coursework in ML and Racket, which he credits for accelerating language learning and functional design choices. He's maintained and improved code quality across teams—driving shared ESLint configs, Renovate, Sentry, and component design systems—to reduce technical debt and streamline deployments. Comfortable across AWS, Postgres, and automation tooling, he blends pragmatic product focus with a fondness for functional programming and Emacs-driven workflows. Outside work, he fuels long coding sessions with burritos, a small but telling hint at his disciplined, developer-first culture.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Design Development and Maintenance Certificate Web Design and Development, Web Design Development and Maintenance Certificate Web Design and Development at Humber CollegeMultimedia Design and Production Multimedia, Multimedia Design and Production Multimedia at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (35)
backend9
debian8
docker-compose8
authentication8
realtime7
web-application7
webrtc7
jitsi7
proofs7
sentry7
docker7
scalable6
golang6
jitsi-meet6
npm-audit6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ZedLove/zedmacs
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
ZedLove/sketchsketch
Mar 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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