Summary
Zane Riley is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tallahassee with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining full-stack Java and JavaScript applications. He favors simplicity and maintainability, and has a track record of improving performance and clarity through targeted refactors and introducing Clean Code practices across teams. Zane has moved legacy systems to cloud-native deployments, added CI/CD integrations, and automated manual workflows—saving teams hours through practical tooling like Hopper, a Node-backed React productivity app he built. He’s also an experienced mentor and supervisor who has taught React, API design, SQL, and engineering standards to junior developers. Comfortable across front-end frameworks (React, Redux, Angular, jQuery) and Java backends, he blends pragmatic engineering with an eye for operational reliability. Outside typical feature work, he’s repeatedly stepped into system-level problems—diagnosing and fixing database issues and driving transitions from on-prem to AWS.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Millikin University