# Brian Z.

> Senior Software Engineer at Forerunner

Location: Greater Madison Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brianz

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Forerunner
Jan 2020 – Present
Have worked on a variety of front and backend projects. Stack is Node and we've converted everything over to Typescript.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kenna Security
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Brodhead, Wisconsin, United States
Worked on a wide array of projects including:
- Various client facing features involving React JS with typical Rails backend work
- Worked with ops team to forge a path forward on moving our software to containers
- Helped build a data warehouse system using Bigquery and Go

### Software Engineer @ Braintree
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, IL
Worked on various systems related to onboarding merchants primarily in Ruby on Rails and Clojure.
Near the end of my tenure I worked in Javascript/React with some Java/Spring.

My time at Braintree also gave me lots of experience in API Design, Docker/containerization, and designing a service oriented architecture.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
North Central College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

### General Education
College of DuPage
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brian-z-b82916103

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Last updated: 2026-03-22