Zachary Lowden

Zachary Lowden Winnipeg, Manitoba Who am I? Notable Skills A self-taught full stack software engineer capable of building, deploying, and managing any software project end to end. I am experienced in building software using both legacy and modern tech, I’ve worked on and deployed everything from PHP drupal projects to Golang microservices. I am very capable of leading project from both a human and technical perspective. In my 3 years of professional experience, I have worked on many different teams executing a wide variety of tasks, both as a leader and not. Some of my most notable work would be my time at rubix.io, where I was solely responsible for managing production and building out a CI pipeline. When I joined the project, their production deployment was nothing more than a bunch of ec2 instances on AWS, with no pipeline. When I exited the project, I had moved them over to GCP and deployed their api to a highly scalable kubernetes cluster on GKE easily capable of handling tens of thousands of concurrent users. I also built out full testing and staging environments that were completely automated via a Gitlab CI pipeline. I have also done quite a bit of teaching and mentoring in my career, mostly either running workshops teaching debugging strategies, or doing 1-on-1 mentoring for software development. My workshop attendance was often very high, with all seats usually being full. Experience Installer Bold Commerce - ​July 2017 - July 2018 * Building, and maintaining highly scalable systems on a variety of cloud service providers using kubernetes/docker. * Working with decentralized applications and interfacing with blockchain networks. * Ensuring safe deployment of new revisions by embracing TDD/BDD and educating my peers on its benefits. * Teaching software engineering concepts at any level. As an installer at Bold, my job was to integrate our frontend scripts with various Shopify themes. This would sometimes prove to be a complex task when the theme was custom built * Being open to new or when multiple other 3rd parties are already integrated. ideas and software The technical stack for this job was fairly simple development HTML/CSS/JS with heavy use of Chrome developer tools for philosophies, my mind debugging. Frontend Developer Bold Commerce - ​July 2018 - Present can always be changed if a compelling argument can be made. As a frontend developer at Bold, my job was very similar to that of an installer, except I was responsible for solving only highly complex frontend issues that were internally escalated to my team from the various other teams as issues were reported to us by clients. DevOps Engineer Rubix Exchange March 2019 - November 2019 My responsibilities at Rubix as their sole SRE was to maintain the production environment, build out a pipeline, and ensure overall stability of all environments in a fast paced development cycle. Since it was a small company, I also helped out other teams when needed, which required me to learn as I went. I feel that this is a very good example of my ability to learn anything quickly, as I went from not understanding Bitcoin/Cryptocurrencies to writing code to abstract away the complexities of interfacing with the various blockchain networks in a couple of days. * I can learn anything, so therefore I can build anything.