Zed Lopez
Technical Lead at University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolZed Lopez is a Technical Lead based in Berkeley with over a decade of hands-on experience building dynamic, database-driven web applications in Perl, Python, and Ruby. He specializes in back-end, soup-to-nuts web development, moving legacy hard-coded systems to data-driven designs and championing MVC practices across teams. At UC Berkeley he led the Shopping Cart project for campus IT services, designed robust administrative interfaces, and introduced Python/CherryPy and Cheetah where appropriate. Zed pairs practical engineering with mentorship—training developers in maintainable patterns and documenting systems for operational handoff. His background spans research and industry roles dating to Bellcore, reflecting deep systems thinking and a preference for pragmatic, long-lived solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., M.S. at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S., B.S. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (19)
software-distribution10
inform710
programming-language8
twine7
grammars6
glossary4
cli4
api3
literate3
server-side3
procedure3
crossword3
bug-tracker2
tlaplus2
react2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zedlopez/extensions
Feb 2021 - Apr 2024
Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy!
Contributions:37 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 2 months
extensionsinform-7inform
zedlopez/inform
May 2022 - Nov 2024
The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language.
Contributions:157 pushes, 101 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
inform-7informsoftware-distributionmarkup-languagewolfram-language
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