# Zachary Rothstein

> Pre-Medical Post-Baccalaureate Student at City College| Former Software Engineer | University of Chicago (‘24) B.S. in Computer Science & Minor in Religious Studies

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zacharyrothstein

I'm a software engineer at Mechanical Orchard. I graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in Computer Science. I've spent two summers interning at Google and another interning at a workforce management startup. I've also done research at the intersection of Machine Learning and Computer Security and worked as a Teaching Assistant in Computer Security and in Database Systems. I'm also interested in the intersection of privacy law and technology.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer I @ Mechanical Orchard
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
COBOL Legacy Modernization

### Backend Software Engineer @ Aspen Dental
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Refactored, migrated, and deployed dozens of payments endpoints from a .NET C# monolithic application to a Python FastAPI microservice

- Configured, simplified, and optimized large SQL queries and stored procedures on SQL Server and Postgres databases

- Utilized GCP’s Publisher-Subscriber architecture to trigger asynchronous tasks in the EPMS backend
Monitored API performance using GCP logs explorer and custom Grafana dashboards

- Collaborated with a multi-discipline team of quality assurance engineers, front end engineers, dev ops engineers, and business anaylysts to build payments microservice

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Google Maps for iPhone, Engineering Productivity

Utilized Google’s internal APIs to analyze developer workflow and identify blockers for over 3,000 individuals in the Geo (Google Maps) organization
Implemented a fix to the QA testing process that increased developer velocity and increase efficiency across the entire Google Maps organization
Collaborated on a hybrid team of 25 by writing clear code, engaging in regular meetings, and integrating teammate feedback into work

### STEP Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Automated user-facing troubleshooting notifications for Google Ads on Search to support campaign management; implemented both frontend and backend enhancements supporting over 10 thousand users. 
- Contributed to a high-impact project using dependency injection, object-oriented programming in Java, asynchronous job-scheduling, and frontend development using Soy templates alongside HTML, CSS and Javascript. 
- Worked cohesively on a team by writing clear and concise code while also attending weekly meetings and standups
- Met with numerous security and privacy professionals, including non-engineers, across Google.

### Student Researcher @ University of Chicago
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Conducted research aiming to classify images as orderly or disordered with Professor Sanjay Krishnan
- Utilized machine learning and image processing libraries in Python using Google Colaboratory

### Data Science and Back End Development Intern @ Elando
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Automated backend tasks, using frameworks such as AWS’s Apache Airflow, for a machine learning
model deployed via an API
- Generated data visualization tools for analyzing API performance, including an interactive
dashboard
- Integrated automated CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions to automate error-checking
- Used Python, Plotly, SQL, Pandas among other libraries, to perform the above tasks.

### Human Resources Director @ Riverdale Kosher Market
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bronx, New York, United States
Serving as Director of Human Resources and Part-Time Manager of the Pizza Block

### Co-Founder @ ZAG Online Coding Camp
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Queens, New York, United States
I Co-Founded an online coding camp with Gavriel Karsch during the summer of 2020. We taught middle schoolers fundamental coding schools by designing an interactive and project-based curriculum

### Summer Intern @ Sonomed Escalon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New Hyde Park, New York, United States
Short 3 Week internship where I worked in both the Production and Research & Development departments.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Chicago
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma
Sar High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20