Publication
The Six Commandments of Good Code: Write Code That Stands the Test of Time
https://www.toptal.com/developers/software/six-commandments-of-good-code
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Zachary Goldberg
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Los Angeles, United States
Toptal member since April 20, 2016
Bio
Zach Goldberg is an experienced technical entrepreneur, having recently served as the CTO of Lottery.com, an entrepreneur in residence at Tencent, the CEO/CTO of three of his own startups, and many others. Zach is passionate about using technology to improve the human condition, and has served as a consultant to over a dozen tech startups. Zach also has a private pilot's license, races sports cars, and is an expert at Kerbal Space Program.
Portfolio
Lottery.com
React, Docker, MongoDB, Node.js, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Amazon EC2
Foodida
Amazon Web Services (AWS), React
MW Delivery
iOS, Android, PHP
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
Preferred Environment
Emacs, Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve built was Cerebro. It’s a tool that I wrote to automate cloud deployments and is currently focused on AWS.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
2016 - PRESENT
Lottery.com
- Managed and was responsible for the company's strategy for using technological resources.
- Migrated the project to React Native.
- Implemented Kanban and lean flows.
Technologies: React, Docker, MongoDB, Node.js, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Amazon EC2
Consultant CTO | Engineer
2016 - PRESENT
Foodida
- Optimized their cloud infrastructure.
- Built a HTML5 app version of their product.
- Worked with React and HTML5.
- Maintained and fostered client relationships and performed consultancy management.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), React
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, and so on).
Technologies: iOS, Android, PHP
Chief Technology Officer
2019 - 2022
Growflow, Corp.
- Joined GrowFlow in June of 2019 to oversee the engineering and product teams building the suite of products at GrowFlow. Under my leadership, between 2019 and 2022, the team more than doubled in size while the company grew in revenue by 800%.
- Oversaw the creation of two new departments, support engineering and quality assurance, allowing the feature engineering team to dramatically improve the percent of their time spent moving the roadmap forward rather than on maintenance.
- Managed the consolidation of two codebases (one from an acquisition) into a single cohesive engineering team and a tech stack that operates as a platform with a modern architecture, a well-understood domain language, and best practices in CI/CD.
Technologies: Node.js, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, GraphQL
Engineer | 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: Linux, PHP
Co-founder | CTO
2014 - 2015
Sticks and Brains
- Built the Erlang back-end for a mobile messaging app.
- Developed 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: Ejabberd, XMPP, Erlang, iOS, Android, Kubernetes
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.
- Implemented A/B testing.
Technologies: Data Analytics
Co-founder | CEO | 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.
- Built and promoted company culture.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash Script, Django, Python, iOS, Android
Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Associate Product Manager
2010 - 2012
- Led the SRE and DevOps team for a product with eight 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 Development Tools
Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2008 - 2010
Invite Media
- Developed, as an early engineer, a demand-side platform for the real-time bidding of display advertising.
- Contributed to the build of infrastructure automation and operations.
- Was involved with the server memory and performance profiling.
- Developed the operational alerting management.
- Implemented load balancing and worked on the global-scaling of the infrastructure.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AMQP, Redis, Django, Python
Experience
Cerebro
Cerebro is a tool I wrote to automate cloud deployments currently focused on AWS.
The engineer prepares a configuration file outlining their desired specifications for virtual machines (VMs), including RAM capacity, CPU allocation, code location, and other relevant parameters. Subsequently, Cerebro utilizes this configuration file to generate and provision the VMs within the cloud environment, deploying the designated code onto the VMs and actively monitoring the software's performance throughout its execution.
It also provides an administrative console for making changes to the deployment, tailing log files, and so on.
The engineer prepares a configuration file outlining their desired specifications for virtual machines (VMs), including RAM capacity, CPU allocation, code location, and other relevant parameters. Subsequently, Cerebro utilizes this configuration file to generate and provision the VMs within the cloud environment, deploying the designated code onto the VMs and actively monitoring the software's performance throughout its execution.
It also provides an administrative console for making changes to the deployment, tailing log files, and so on.
Education
2006 - 2010
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, AMQP, React, Twilio API, Facebook API
Tools
NGINX, Emacs, Google Development Tools, Android Studio, Android NDK, Xcode
Languages
Python, Erlang, GraphQL, PHP, Java, Bash, C, Objective-C, Bash Script, Haskell, Perl, JavaScript
Frameworks
Django, Hadoop
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ubuntu, Linux, Android, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, iOS, Mailgun, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Paradigms
Functional Programming, Concurrent Programming
Storage
Redis, PostgreSQL, Mnesia, MongoDB, MySQL
Other
Load Balancers, Ejabberd, Communication, Product Management, Product Ownership, DNS, Elastic Load Balancers, HAProxy, Scalability, WiFi, Freelancing, Programming, Software Development, Bluetooth, Data Analytics, XMPP, Packaging, WiFi Direct, Virtual Machines
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