Zachary Robinson Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

New York, New York, United States

I'm a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Arcesium.

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States

I managed day-to-day operations and long-term planning for a 30-year-old chartered student organization providing digital services to over 1,600 Swarthmore students. Responsibilities have included full-stack development, personnel management, outage recovery, system administration, communicating with college administration, hardware installation.

New York, United States

At Arcesium, I built, from the ground up, a new web portal for users and administrators to manage over 1,000 cloud workstations, which cut the number of support issues requiring engineer attention by half. I also created a cost reporting tool to allocate over $1M of annual spend by subdepartment, and began revamping a critical infrastructure component to.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

At Polaris, I developed and documented best practices for Ansible usage appropriate to the teams' specific infrastructure environment. I wrote a variety of production Ansible playbooks, including new virtual machine deployment as well as backup configuration for 200+ migrated virtual machines. Additionally, I was a member of an intern team that won the.

I wrote a bi-weekly column for Swarthmore's campus newspaper in which I examined various computer technologies underpinning modern life and explained them in an accessible manner. Column topics included encryption, nuclear power, and cloud computing.

Helped develop a new app and website for WeWyll, a nonprofit that pairs volunteers with opportunities. Designed and implemented backend API using Express.js according to industry best practices. Coordinated with front-end development in authentication, business, and other logic.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Over the summer, I interned fully remotely at Streem, a startup working to make the world's expertise more accessible via augmented reality video calling. At Streem, I researched dependencies, build processes, etc. for different libraries and software solutions under consideration and communicated my findings with various pieces of documentation and.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1540, The Flaming Chickens, is a competitive student-led robotics team with 30+ members. As co-manager, I assigned development tasks, designed system architecture, and communicated with other team departments to ensure that software needs were considered in robot design. During the offseason, I also instructed new software.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

I designed major components of the team's 2020 robot using Autodesk Fusion 360 and provided CAD guidance to other team members throughout the design and build process. I collaborated with five other student designers to ensure robot functionality, performance, and cost were on-target.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

As a member of the robot software department, I wrote large portions of the Java control logic for the team's 2018, 2019, and 2020 robots, as well as the backend for a time tracking system during the summer of 2018.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

As a member of the fabrication department throughout my time on the team, I machined robot parts using our CNC mill and router in addition to other metal shop tools. In my senior year, I led an effort to revolutionize the team's CAM procedures, increasing CNC machine throughput by 400%. I also instructed new team members on the safe and efficient operation.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

As Embedded Systems Lead, I designed and built the software and systems architecture for Moby, an autonomous robotic brush mower. I used ROS and Python for its onboard control systems, based on a Raspberry Pi with the Navio2 hat.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 (Major); 3.9/4.0 (Overall)

Activities and Societies: Swarthmore College Computer Society, Swarthmore Fencing TeamMinors in English Literature and Engineering

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

Activities and Societies: FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1540, Junior State of America