# Zachary Hamm > Staff Software Engineer Location: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zacharyhamm 💻 Staff Software Engineer with professional experience across critical projects in fintech, insurance, and healthcare technology sectors 🏭🛜 SvelteKit advocate 🛠️ Skilled in multiple engineering disciplines, including solution architecture, automation frameworks, frontend development, developer experience and advocacy, data analysis, and team management 🌐 Open-source contributor 🌊📚 Graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University as a four-year student-athlete, finishing with a BoSC in Computer Science and Minor in Theology 🎼🎸 Musician, songwriter, audio engineer, frequent front-row concert goer, and encyclopedia of classic rock 🧿🌓 Ever-growing collection of tattoos 🛡 Completed The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past too many times ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Polly Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area Led innovation as a key stakeholder on the Platform team, designing product architecture, responsive component library toolkits, and developer experience enhancements for the mortgage processing application. • Architected the component test framework for the internal components library which included 1,500 tests that ensured the stability of our UI components used in all new applications • Led directives to standardize the end-to-end and test framework, including data isolation techniques, test parallelization, code cleanup, and effective reporting, which shortened the release regression testing runtime from 8 to 3 hours per cycle • Configured code coverage metrics on unit & component tests on pull requests, bringing the total coverage percentage from 60% to 85% in three months • Wrote architectural documentation for an ETL data ingestion program acting as a cross-department consultant for the Investor team • Executed a comprehensive test strategy for the responsive version of Polly’s application, involving framework design, team management, and capacity planning • Created useful programs including an open-source load balancer for Cypress, code health reporting, and encrypted file comparison tools • Hosted office hours to mentor frontend developers and QA Engineers on component & end-to￾end test curation, code reviews, and TypeScript practice ### Software Engineer II @ Validic Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Durham, North Carolina, United States Responsible for all automation capabilities across patient and clinician healthcare-monitoring applications, both mobile and web; essentially ran the Quality department for a long while. • Directed overall quality procedures, standards, and objectives for the frontend side of the Engineering department • Architected a WebDriverIO mobile automation framework against the HealthBridge application for both Android and iOS devices, including UI, accessibility, system integration, and mocked Bluetooth device tests • Reduced compounding test failures while speeding up nightly regression runs from 12 to 6 hours through a rebuild of the automation framework used for the Impact remote patient monitoring web application through isolated data creation techniques and reusable page-object handlers • Configured many DevOps initiatives including real-time test reporting, scheduled regression workflows, and deployment-based smoke testing on new features • Implemented the ‘3 Amigos’ process to align feedback of designers and developers with the requirements set by product owners during the 6-week Shape-Up cycles ### Software Engineer @ Validic Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Durham, North Carolina, United States • Led the automation framework efforts within the Applications team for the HealthBridge mobile application to ensure patient experience was secure, easy-to-use, and always-available when participating in remote programs that manage their health and wellness • Built the automation framework for HealthBridge, a mobile health tracking application for both Android and iOS. The framework used Appium and WebDriverIO as the groundwork, and utilized page object patterns, dynamic data fixtures, and real-time reporting for end-to-end tests. Functional tests made sure app state was consistent, and larger “flow” tests were based on how patients navigate the application to record health metrics from Bluetooth devices and external cloud sources into the Impact remote patient monitoring platform, through various registration flows and configurations • Enabled scheduled end-to-end testing and immediate smoke testing on new application builds using emulated devices in Sauce Labs • Curated and executed release validation plans for the Impact remote monitoring platform, including multiple environment and production validations ### Senior Software Developer @ Nationwide Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Columbus, Ohio Built dataset validation frameworks used to audit large-scale ETL workflows within the Investments and Agency departments, while also managing quality analysts and SDETs across those teams. ### Product Developer @ Huntington National Bank Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Columbus, Ohio ### Data Engineer @ Ohio Valley Medical Center Incorporated Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Wheeling, West Virginia ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Wheeling University ### Linsly School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hammzachj - GitHub: https://github.com/hammzj --- Source: https://flows.cv/zacharyhamm JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zacharyhamm/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22