Zachary Goldberg

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Member since March 16, 2016

A former engineering lead at Google and Entrepreneur in Residence at Tencent, Zachary is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer, with experience as the founder, CEO, and CTO of several different companies. He's proficient at most "startup" stacks, including cloud infrastructure & Ops (AWS, Puppet, etc.), back-end stacks (Python, Erlang), mobile (Android & iOS), and some front-end work.

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Portfolio

Foodida
AWS, React.js
MW Delivery
PHP, Android, iOS
OBeN
PHP, Linux

Experience

Communication, 20 years
Python, 10 years
Linux, 9 years
Product Management, 8 years
Android, 7 years
Django, 6 years
Nginx, 5 years
Erlang, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Emacs

The most amazing...

...thing is when I get to work with a motivated team with common goals and feel mutually energized to achieve the impossible.

Employment

"Consultant CTO" and Engineer
2016 - PRESENT
Foodida
- Optimized their cloud infrastructure.
- Built a HTML5 app version of their product.
- Worked with React.js and HTML5.
- Maintained and fostered client relationships and performed consultancy management.
Technologies: AWS, React.js
Engineering Consultant
2015 - PRESENT
MW Delivery
- Updated and rebuilt Android and iOS apps.
- Migrated a production web app to a new platform.
- Revamped a web platform by adding many new features.
- Did technical consulting and advising for the company, including IT-related tasks (mail migration, DNS migrations, etc.).
Technologies: PHP, Android, iOS
Engineer and Engineering Manager
2016 - 2016
OBeN
- Managed a technical project with a client and an outsourced developer.
- Built a demo app to win a deal with a client.
- Managed the remote developer.
- Built a WeChat API.
Technologies: PHP, Linux
Co-Founder and CTO
2014 - 2015
Sticks and Brains
- Built the Erlang back-end for a mobile messaging app.
- Built the Android client for the messaging app.
- Experimented and developed new features based on BLE, Bluetooth Low Energy technology.
- Updated and maintained the iOS app.
Technologies: Android, iOS, Erlang, eJabbered, XMPP
Entrepreneur in Residence
2014 - 2014
Tencent
- Developed internal processes for analyzing customer data.
- Created new product features.
- Developed and iterated a product road map.
- Planned product international expansion and exposure plans.
- Worked with senior management and VPs for product planning.
- Did A/B Testing.
Technologies: Data Analytics
Cofounder, CEO, and CTO
2012 - 2013
ZenReach
- Carefully selected and interviewed a team of approximately 15 people.
- Developed an initial Android app and web framework.
- Built an internal tool for testing company's software on hundreds of embedded devices.
- Managed the teams and built and promoted company culture.
Technologies: Android, iOS, Python/Django, Bash Scripting, AWS
Lead SRE and Associate Product Manager
2010 - 2012
Google
- Led the SRE and DevOps team for a product with 8 figures a year in revenue.
- Worked as a PM in advertising and cloud.
- Developed internal product dashboards in Google code base.
- Coordinated multiple teams across the country.
- Worked with sales and marketing to plan new product launches.
Technologies: Google related tech
Lead SRE
2008 - 2010
Invite Media
- As an early engineer, developed a Demand Side Platform for real-time bidding of display advertising.
- Worked with infrastructure automation and operations.
- Involved with the server memory and performance profiling.
- Developed the operational alerting management.
- Did load balancing and worked on the global-scaling of the infrastructure.
Technologies: Python Django, Redis, AMQP, AWS

Experience

The Six Commandments of Good Code: Write Code that Stands the Test of Time (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/software/six-commandments-of-good-code
How do you define good code? Is it 100% test coverage, or is it backwards compatibility with decade-old hardware? We may not be able to reach an end to this debate yet, but good software always seems to conform to a few certain qualities of code. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Zachary Goldberg walks us through six simple ideas that can help you make better, more maintainable software.

Skills

Languages
Python, Erlang, Objective-C, C, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Haskell
Frameworks
Django, Hadoop
Tools
Nginx, Emacs, Xcode, Android NDK, Android Studio
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android, Linux, Ubuntu, Mailgun, iOS, Elastic Beanstalk
Other
ejabberd, Scalability, Product Management, Communication, Load Balancing, Bluetooth Low Energy/BlueZ stack, Wifi, HAProxy, Elastic Load Balancing, DNS, Product Ownership, Bluetooth, WiFi Direct, Packaging
Paradigms
Functional Programming, Concurrent Programming
Libraries/APIs
Facebook API, Twilio API, React
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mnesia

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering
2006 - 2010
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)