# Zachary R. > Software engineer Location: Mesa, Arizona, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zacharyr I am a software developer with five years of experience and a current focus on building and maintaining highly-scaled distributed systems in Go. In late 2018 I moved to Germany to join the team at Travel Audience building their ad and real-time bidding platforms. My prior work includes engineering roles with video startups in San Francisco and Istanbul. I earned a BS in Computer Science from University of Arizona. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Blueprint Test Prep Jan 2023 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Available Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Software Engineer @ OneStudyTeam Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Developed user stories using Clojure, ClojureScript, and TypeScript+React for user-facing applications. - Developed system-level notification system, including a scheduler and templating macro system. - Excellent record of delivering full-stack product features for customer-facing electronic form submissions. ### Software Engineer @ OneStudyTeam Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ Braintree Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mesa, Arizona, United States - Provided maintenance and schema decisions to external GraphQL API for payments in Java. - Added NGINX fronting proxy to the application deployed in Kubernetes on the cloud. ### Software Developer @ travel audience GmbH - an Amadeus Company Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Berlin Area, Germany Travel Audience is a data-driven advertising platform that provides real-time bidding on ad platforms and leverages traveller data to better match advertisers with travelers. My work includes writing and maintaining Go services running on Kubernetes, development and tuning for the real-time bidding system and its algorithm optimization system, and implementation of algorithms designed by the Machine Learning team using Go. Other projects have included a secure storage service for personally identifiable data and a full-stack realtime service control/debug panel using React and Go, and an in-house ad templating system and Go library that parses formatting directives from generic ad HTML to generate viewable ads. I also mentor team members, helped introduce pair programming, and serve as an internal subject matter expert in performance optimization of Go code across several projects. ### Software Engineer @ 11Sight Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Istanbul, Turkey 11Sight is a startup building a one-click video calling app to be used in customer support or sales settings. As a full-stack engineer I worked on a video calling Rails web app responsible for implementing front-end features in React including screen sharing and desktop call receive features, as well as backend features in Ruby for account/call history management and QR code call sharing. I drove introduction of application monitoring and alerting best practices, using Prometheus to monitor key components. Other development projects included building a CLI QR code tool in Go to generate branded QR codes used to embed call IDs and an additional tool to extract audio from videos recorded in a browser. I also debugged a SIP protocol for video calls and updated OpenSIP configurations. ### Software Engineer @ Fikrimuhal Technology Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Istanbul, Turkey Fikrimuhal is a startup peer-to-peer video streaming provider. In this role my focus was on Scala backend services and implementing CI/CD workflows on AWS with CodePipeline and SSL certificate distribution via Lambda functions. ### Software Developer @ Epic Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Madison, Wisconsin Area I was trained in C#, Objective C, and various web technologies before being assigned to a team focused on Epic's iOS app, responsible for full-stack development and maintenance on mobile EMR access solutions using C#, Objective C, and JavaScript. I also contributed to an NLP tool prototype to be used in clinical ambulatory settings utilizing C# and Objective C. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Epic Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science University of Arizona Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zac-romero --- Source: https://flows.cv/zacharyr JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zacharyr/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22