Omer Zach Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, California, Us

Building economic infrastructure for the internethttps://stripe.com/financial-connections

South San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Working part-time as a contractor on the Mina blockchain project, primarily writing OCaml for REST/GraphQL APIs.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

I transitioned from overseeing Merit’s entire engineering organization to a more hands- on coding role as the team grew from 7 to 20 engineers. I spent about half of my time providing guidance to the product and engineering teams on the architecture and design of internal and external APIs, the developer platform, and infrastructure, with a focus on the long-term technical trajectory of the entire system. I spent the rest of my time writing code to scale the codebase and platform as the team and user base grew, including leading a migration from a NoSQL database to PostgreSQL.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

I hired, mentored, and managed an engineering team of 7 engineers as the company grew to 25 employees, over 100,000 users, and over $15 million raised. I represented engineering on Merit’s leadership team and built systems and processes for everything from deployment and code review to recruiting, interviewing, and performance leveling.As the only engineer on the founding team, I built the original product and infrastructure end-to-end, including scalable GraphQL and REST Scala backends running on Kubernetes and a modern server-rendered React web app.

New York, Ny, Us

I worked on a wide range of projects with a focus on improving and expanding Foursquare’s worldwide place database through crowdsourcing tools and enriching its ontologies and data. I focused on Scala backend code and offline “big data” jobs, but regularly worked across the entire stack, from web development to low-level infrastructure projects.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Built improvements to Foursquare's web signup flow, implemented new game mechanics, built the backend for flagging issues with user-created tips, and contributed to various refactors and improvements to the company's Scala codebase.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led two recitations, held office hours, and graded theory and programming assignments for Principles of Functional Programming (15-150), an introduction to “the theory and practice of functional programming” using Standard ML.

Contributed to building a new recommendation system by creating sidebar units which were A/B tested against millions of users and designed and implemented a backend service for retrieving and refining the recommendations.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Worked as a full-time intern through the summer and part-time consultant during the school year on various projects including social media marketing and UI copywriting, and as a one-man documentation, technical support, and QA team at a Silicon Valley startup in preparation for and after the launch of Screenjelly, a web-based screen recording application.

B.S., Computer Science

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