# Tristan Zickovich

> Lead Software Engineer

Location: Torrance, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tristanzickovich

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Northspyre
Jan 2023 – Present
Integrated AI-driven document ingestion, cutting processing time by 95% and enabling faster onboarding of large-scale projects.
Directed a team of engineers, implementing career progression frameworks, conducting technical mentorship, and shaping engineering culture to improve retention and delivery consistency.
Redesigned Cost Tracking tooling, increasing reliability and reducing production incidents by 85%, directly improving client trust and operational stability.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Integrated Digital Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Video Content Ingestion & Processing — Senior Full Stack Developer
Designed and developed redundant, available and scalable AWS cloud based systems and microservices for video content ingestion which resulted in reliable end to end content tracking and monitoring, content management and content distribution.
Integrated with Product and Engineering teams and external services to coordinate large scale system design.
Mentored other engineers in feature development and design decisions which improved code maintainability, system stability and reliability and team operating efficiency
Scripted and automated recurring processes which reduced team overhead by 10 hours weekly.
  [Golang, GraphQL, React, Typescript, Apollo, AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, API Gateway, Aurora, AppSync, CloudWatch, IAM), Terraform, PostgreSQL, 
   Flyway, Docker, IAM, K8s, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Jenkins, SpectaQL, Mockery]

Data Conversion & Validation Toolset — Engineering Manager, Lead Developer
Designed and led team development of a toolset to convert validation and normalization rulesets which resulted in successful quality control system migration which reduced costs and improved system reliability.
Created a validation test harness which ensured parity between systems.
Managed team roadmap and objectives, mentored other engineers, and maintained open communication with other teams to meet target goals and deadlines.
  [Python3, AWS (S3, SNS, SQS, EC2)]

### Software Engineer @ Integrated Digital Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | El Segundo, CA
Real Estate Investment Platform — Full Stack Developer
Mentored engineers in development of video and text chat features which enabled in-app communication.
Initiated authentication migration from AWS Cognito to Auth0 which enabled easy integration with JWT and Federated log-in.
Developed real estate listing and browsing features enabling users to create and view listings.
  [Node.js, React, Typescript, Jest, GraphQL, Apollo, DynamoDB, AWS Chime, AWS CloudFormation]

Video & Live Streaming Application — Engineering Manager, Lead Developer
Led and managed a team of 10 in development and launch of the UI for DirecTV's cross platform streaming app leveraging React Native to reduce code base size and complexity, synchronize app store deployments, and unify user experience across clients.
Headed performance optimization efforts which resulted in a 40% page load time improvement. 
Integrated with Product, Design and Engineering teams to manage team objectives, tasks, deadlines, and deliverables.
  [React Native, Typescript, Redux, Jest, Appium, AWS Kinesis / Firehose, Jenkins]

Data QC & Processing Workflow — Engineering Manager, Lead Developer
Led a team in the design and development of an AWS cloud based QC tooling to validate incoming Video Content files which detected and alerted on issues that reduced overall processing time and costs.
Worked with external teams to manage design requirements allowing for rapid delivery of features.
  [Python, ELK Stack, AWS (Lambda, Batch, SNS, SQS, S3), JSON Schema, Terraform]

### Jr. Developer @ Integrated Digital Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | El Segundo, California
Crawler & System Monitoring Tool — Full Stack Developer, Release Manager
Developed a service to crawl and monitor a video streaming platform which surfaced insights on system health, improving issue detection and reducing customer impact.
Configured ElasticSearch to handle large volumes of data resulting in fault tolerance and resiliency.
Managed releases and deployments enabling quick and reliable deployment and rollback procedures.
  [Python, Flask, Angular JS, ELK Stack, Nomad, Docker, Terraform, ElastAlert, Swagger]

### Software QA Intern @ Taco Bell
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Automated order simulation on cashier machines for data generation / collection.
[Python, win32api]

Created an internal lab machine reservation system.
[JavaScript, PHP, MySQL]

Performed QA on an in store inspection checklist app.

### Robotics Intern and Instructor @ Rolling Robots
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palos Verdes
Taught introductory Robotics
[Scratch, Arduino, Lego Mindstorm]

Planned out and built a remote controlled robot w/ a team.
[Arduino, C, various hardware]


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of California, Riverside
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tristan-zickovich-44803a127

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Last updated: 2026-03-29