# Zachary Pear

> Engineering at Palantir Technologies

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zacharypear

Computer Science Major (Intelligent Systems)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2020 – Present

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California
Worked with the advertisement Inventory Forecasting Team which simulates user traffic across demographics and webpages while accounting for competition between existing bookings so external ad managers can orchestrate more effective campaigns

Profiled and determined production-viability of new contention simulator (accounts for conflicts between proposed and booked ad campaigns for supply prediction) using JProfiler. Was responsible for migration to a consolidated Lucene index and implemented optimizations to further decrease latency by 3x

Deployed contention simulator to a distributed environment, linked with a shared cache, and automated dynamic index download to set up for extensive production-like testing

Helped position team to implement previously unattainable capabilities, including real-time forecasting

### Software Engineer Intern @ Mark43
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Improved search capabilities on Computer Aided Dispatch by leveraging ElasticSearch and creating new modular structures for future extendibility. Directly improves dispatcher ability to correctly search for location (the call’s most crucial information) and enable engineers to deliver future improvements seamlessly

### Software Engineer Intern @ Beecher Investors Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stamford, CT
- Created intelligent web scraper to periodically locate and download investment-related reports from hundreds of websites, saving the company hundreds of man-hours. Implemented recursively to handle dynamically
structured websites
- Designed and implemented programs to parse pdfs containing company information dating back decades to periodically update approximately 2,000 excel spreadsheets. Streamlined a major component of an employee's
responsibilities
- Created an easy-to-use excel macro to split up yearly K-1 aggregate documents dating back 20 years into individual pdfs for each client, parsing the pdf to find the client and name the new document accordingly

### Information Systems Intern @ Stamford Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Stamford, CT
- Managed accounts to uphold HIPAA, preventing disgruntled employee access to confidential information
- Researched malware designed to cripple hospital infrastructure and helped identify prevention methods
- Researched cloud-based storage services for data hosting and task automation


## Education
### B.A. in Computer Science (Intelligent Systems)
Columbia University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Darien High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zachary-pear-aa7b5a139

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Last updated: 2026-03-23