# Zack Steinkamp > People and Computers Location: Scotts Valley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zacksteinkamp ## Work Experience ### VIP Volunteer @ Santa Cruz County Parks Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Cruz County, CA Volunteering and leading groups of volunteers to build the Pace Trail, two miles of new trail attached to Quail Hollow Ranch County Park. Learned skills in building trails and managing groups of volunteers with varying skill and ability levels. ### Music Tech Software Developer @ Self-Employed Jan 2024 – Present | Scotts Valley, California, United States Developing tools for musicians to unlock their creative potential, such as the Knobbler parameter and navigation control surface for Ableton Live and your iPad. ### Sr Architect @ NGINX Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Bringing my experience in delivering applications to the teams that build Nginx products and services. Nginx software powers the front lines of hundreds of millions of internet sites. Bootstrapped the dev team, architecture, and ways of working for a new product initiative that maximized customer value, employee growth, and team efficiency. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Member of the Stripe Atlas team. Worked on several significant user-facing and team-facing projects. ### Principal Engineer / Sr. Eng Mgr @ Splunk Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Built a team from the ground up to create amazing applications for Splunk salespeople, channel partners, and end-users. These applications are focused on pre- and post-sales moments we have to show Splunk's value or help our customers plan for more effective use of Splunk in their organizations, and have had a significant positive effect on Splunk’s bottom line. Maximizing team happiness, efficiency, scope, responsibility, and personal development produces the best work. React, Node.js, Docker, Amazon ECS, Agile (not Scrum). ### Developer @ Hoopla Software Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA Building software and systems to for Hoopla's web based digital signage / team motivation platform. Working in the entire technology stack. EC2, Ansible, Docker, nginx, RabbitMQ, Mongo, MySQL, Rails, Angular. ### Developer @ DataTorrent, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA Platform and application engineering for DataTorrent's high availability, high throughput real time stream processing system. Focused mostly on the web-based visual data ingest/process/output designer. Anything and everything else to help this company succeed. Java, Angular. ### Engineering Director / Expert Engineer @ Groupon Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA Brought on to help this very successful company grow. Deeply involved with client-side and server-side performance improvements, single-sign-on, real-time metrics/visualization/alerting, datacenter automation, application security, internal and external speaking engagements, PCI-compliant system design and certification, server configuration management, application framework development, recruiting, and acquisition activities. Managed platform engineering teams responsible for global configuration management, real-time data analysis, data infrastructure software, build/release engineering, and application frameworks. Transitioned to an individual contributor role focused on low latency data analysis systems, international PCI compliance, and other horizontally-cutting projects in the company. ### Sr. Principal Developer @ Symantec Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Part of a small team (7 developers) creating a next generation cloud-based medical image storage and sharing product. Saves hospitals money, and saves lives by eliminating unnecessary re-scanning. In 9 months we built a caching medical image proxy to be installed in hospital datacenters, a website giving hospital IT administrators insight into their data usage, and a social experience (web and iOS) for doctors to collaborate on medical imagery. Novel work to allow radiologists to use standard PCs and web browsers to view and manipulate high bit-depth (16 bits/channel) medical images. ### Core Architect and Founder @ Dipity Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco, CA Co-founder and CTO. Assembled a great team to build a web-based tool to organize and present information by time. Involved in fundraising, business development, marketing, and sales activities. Dipity became the leading timeline visualization tool on the internet, with millions of monthly visitors. ### Engineer / Paranoid @ Yahoo! Jan 1999 – Jan 2007 | Sunnyvale, CA Conceived and developed many user-facing features, as well as application infrastructure components on the My Yahoo product team. Also responsible for login, user registration, and admin tools, and management of the team. Built a company-wide performance and availability monitoring system. Joined the core security team (Yahoo! Paranoids) to focus on cutting-edge frontend security issues, and to serve as a web security consultant to the rest of the company. ### Various Roles @ Various Jobs Jan 1988 – Jan 1999 | Various Locations My first job was in 10th grade as a Darkroom Technician for a local photo shop, doing handmade enlargements in black & white and color. From there, I sold furniture (Home Express), fixed computers (Fry's Electronics), built and configured multiprocessor servers (WYSE Technology), did IT and programming work (First Class International, a corporate travel agency), and built web applications (Cal Poly SLO Library, Multimedia Reference Department). Through this time I did independent programming and graphic design work for small businesses. ## Education ### BS in Business / MIS / CS California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ### High School Mission San Jose High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zsteinkamp - Portfolio: https://steinkamp.us/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/zacksteinkamp JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zacksteinkamp/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10