Zane Pickett
Chief Technology Officer at Quiltt
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZane Pickett is a seasoned CTO and software engineer with 20+ years of experience building fault-tolerant, scalable systems for startups in advertising and financial services. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Typescript, Docker, and AWS with a strong engineering foundation from Full Sail University in real-time simulation engines. Zane has led high-impact migrations and platform rebuilds—cutting deployment times dramatically, moving CI systems at scale, and increasing test coverage from 35% to 85%—while delivering products used by millions of accounts. He’s experienced integrating multi-vendor financial APIs and automating critical payment flows, and has contributed backend and DevOps improvements to widely known community projects like Coderwall. Based in San Francisco, he thrives at the intersection of product-speed startup culture and rigorous, production-grade engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Game Development, Bachelor’s Degree Game Development at Full Sail University
Github Skills (11)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
devops9
testing8
aws-elasticsearch7
amazon-elasticsearch7
elasticsearch-api7
elasticsearch7
elasticsearchquery7
cicd6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
coderwall/coderwall-legacy
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Professional network for software engineers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Zane's contributions center on maintaining and improving the back-end infrastructure and deployment processes. They migrated database schemas and removed deprecated tests. The user implemented enhancements for development environment, including support for better errors and seeding indices. They also focused on cleaning up logging and streamlining deployments.
networkprofessionalengineers
hive-xyz/hive
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:34 PRs, 91 pushes, 34 branches in 3 months
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