Zeke Fast
Software Engineer
Germany
Summary
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SeniorZeke Fast is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable systems across Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript/JavaScript and cloud or bare-metal infrastructure. He has blended roles in backend development and site reliability at companies from startups to large e-commerce (Zalando), shipping pragmatic architecture and operational improvements. Zeke contributes to open-source testing tooling—improving parallel test execution in a well-used Ruby test runner—which reflects a practical focus on developer productivity and CI efficiency. Comfortable moving between languages and responsibilities, he pairs low-level systems thinking with hands-on delivery in production environments. Based in Germany, he brings a track record of accelerating test and deployment workflows alongside designing robust services.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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51kreached
14answers
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
cucumber10
rspec10
rake10
test-framework10
parallel-testing10
parallel-tests10
test-automation10
testing10
git6
apache-spark6
cookie6
rspec-rails6
git-svn6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
grosser/parallel_tests
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
Ruby: 2 CPUs = 2x Testing Speed for RSpec, Test::Unit and Cucumber
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zeke primarily focused on enhancing the project's testing infrastructure and capabilities. They introduced a rake task to run rake tasks in parallel, significantly improving testing speed. Several commits involved renaming and refactoring, particularly concerning the test runner and CLI to enable more flexible test execution. These changes suggest a focus on improving test organization and execution efficiency.
speedtestingrubyunitspec
zekefast/tick-tack-toe
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
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