React & TypeScript
Where I started, building UIs that reach thousands of companies.
About
I'm a Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years building enterprise SaaS products, from frontend UIs to the backend services and infrastructure behind them. Today I focus on bridging AI models and the customers who rely on them, turning complex systems into insight people can actually use.
8+ years
Professional experience
Full-stack
Frontend & backend
Enterprise SaaS
B2B product expertise
Expertise
Across the full stack, I can see a feature end to end and deliver it, from interface to infrastructure.
Frontend
Backend
Scala & Node
My focus today, building high-throughput, AI-powered systems.
Infrastructure
Terraform & Kubernetes
The foundation I build and maintain to support that backend work.
Experience
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Staff Software Engineer
Iterable, Inc. · AI Applications
Bridging the gap between AI models and the customer. I build the APIs, infrastructure, and backend services that interface with LLMs and traditional ML models to serve predictions and insights to customers.
- Led the redesign of the app's landing page, used by thousands of customers. Architected the backend and delegated the frontend to the team.
- Led delivery of one of Iterable's first LLM-powered features, surfacing plain-language insight into marketing segments. Architected the backend and prompts, delegated the frontend, and partnered with product and QA to ship it with sub-second response times.
- Scala
- Terraform
- SQL
- Kubernetes
- LLMs
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Senior Software Engineer
Iterable, Inc. · Audience Management
Joined Iterable to overhaul legacy frontend technology and ship complex enterprise UIs, then branched into backend, building the APIs, caches, and services behind new analytics for customers.
- Shipped the Audience Insights feature, my first backend project, teaching myself Scala along the way. Defined the data contracts, implemented the APIs, and built new backend aggregations to power metrics I partnered with a frontend engineer to surface to customers.
- Led the rewrite of the Query Builder, used across the app to construct complex marketing queries. The app had accumulated several divergent, one-off implementations over time; I replaced them with a single, extensible, drop-in component, delegated the build, and worked with downstream teams to adopt it.
- Won Iterable's Winter Hack Week 2024 with an LLM-powered query optimizer for marketing automation. Owned the backend and AI, partnering with design and frontend on data contracts.
- Co-led Iterable's LGBTQ+ employee resource group for 1.5 years, organizing recurring company-wide programming that earned a Certificate of Achievement for Powerhouse Engagement.
- React
- TypeScript
- GraphQL
- Scala
- Redis
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Senior Software Engineer
Optimizely, Inc. · Frontend Infrastructure
Shifted focus to frontend infrastructure, building the tooling every other team relied on to build and deploy their UIs.
- Led adoption of Bazel across the frontend codebase and delivered a high-velocity CI/CD pipeline, giving teams independent autonomy over deploying their own UIs. Partnered with other engineers to integrate the pipeline in support of the company's microfrontend migration.
- Built and maintained a core form library used across the app, standardizing input validation and UX. Drove adoption through documentation and presentations, and supported teams migrating onto it.
- Won Optimizely's company hackathon (Aug 2020) building App Search, using Optimizely's APIs to add global search and workflow shortcuts.
- React
- TypeScript
- Bazel
- OAuth
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Software Engineer
Optimizely, Inc. · Experimentation
My first role out of college, delivering high-quality, customer-facing SaaS UIs across new and existing marketing products.
- Helped build Optimizely Feature Flags, a new product at the time, giving thousands of companies controls to manage A/B tests and feature rollouts. Involved across implementation, testing, and post-release support.
- Contributed to the company's migration off Vue and onto a modern React stack. Collaborated with design to build reusable components and contributed to Optimizely's shared component system.
- Won Optimizely's company hackathon (Dec 2018) building a GitHub integration that surfaced highlighted SDK code references in a user's repository.
- React
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
Internships
- Optimizely, Inc. · Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2017
- General Assembly · Engineering Intern, Summer 2016
- Interactive Corporation · Web Developer Intern, Summers 2011–2015
Education
Class of
Binghamton University
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Cum Laude Latin Honors Recipient[email protected] · zachpwr.com