# Zachary Hughes

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zacharyhughes

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ MachineQ, a Comcast Company
Jan 2022 – Present | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Currently on the core IoT platform team managing suite of services and front-end application. Golang, Kafka, Postgres, API Design, React, Github Actions, Kubernetes, Terraform.

**MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:**

**IAM Infrastructure Overhaul**
- Architected and executed complete migration from legacy identity provider to Auth0-based IAM infrastructure with zero downtime
- Led bulk migration of users and organizations to Auth0, redesigning OAuth2 flow and JWT validation pipeline
- Implemented Terraform infrastructure-as-code to provision Auth0 resources, enabling unified authentication across multiple services
- Developed token-bridge reverse-proxy for gradual M2M credential migration, supporting both Basic Auth and Bearer tokens
- Implemented intelligent fallback logic: attempts Auth0 authentication first, falls back to legacy provider, then auto-provisions Auth0 credentials for future requests
- Updated Kubernetes ingress routing and added caching layer, reducing Auth0 token requests by 10x (~$150K annual savings)
- Implemented enterprise SSO using Azure Entra ID as OpenID Connect provider with domain-based routing for automatic authentication method determination
- Built configurable SSO framework allowing external customers to integrate their own identity providers, extending multi-tenant capabilities
- Enhanced security and UX by eliminating multiple login prompts while maintaining flexible authentication options

**Gateway Alerting Service**
- Implemented Go-based connectivity alerting with Kafka event streaming, Avro serialization, and Azure Service Bus debounce logic
- Designed REST APIs for customer self-service alert management and destination configuration
- Delivered reliable, noise-reduced alerts via webhook, AMQP, and MQTT protocols

### Software Engineer @ goPuff
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
July 2021 - 
Core Infrastructure/Devops team.
Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Azure Container Registry, Golang, Node, Terraform

July 2020 - July 2021
Product Catalog, Search and Recommendations team.
NodeJS, Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos, Postgres

### Backend Software Engineer @ MachineQ
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, PA
Developing core IoT platform using Go, gRPC, Postgres, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.

### Software Engineer @ Bright Wolf, LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Wrote all Infrastructure and CI/CD tooling for industrial IoT platform using Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure managed-services.

### Software Engineer @ CapTech Ventures, Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Columbus, Ohio Area
DevOps engineer working with Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS, GCP and Azure.

### Software Developer @ Bright Wolf, LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Durham, NC
Full-stack engineering using Java/Javascript.

### Application Developer @ Credit Suisse
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2016 Technology Summer Analyst Internship Program - Backend

### Web Developer @ Federation of Neighborhood Centers
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Philadelphia, PA
Started volunteering my time to FNC in January 2014.
Redesigned their website to showcase a more informative, visually pleasing and user-friendly website experience.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Associate of Science - AS in Computer Science
Community College of Philadelphia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Finance
University of Pittsburgh - College of Business Administration
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zacharythughes

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Last updated: 2026-03-22