Zach Hanson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, Us

In this role, my responsibilities include direct management of engineers on multiple teams, including an international team in Poland. I also assist with agile project management for a team in China, and regularly provide roadmaps for engineering and executive leadership.• Led re-architecture of a cloud native SaaS digital whiteboard application that allows users to share ideas, collaborate, and create presentations. This included rebuilding a web front end from the ground up and implementing an SDK to be leveraged by multiple front-end platforms (Web, iOS, Android)• Collaborated with direct reports to establish quarterly and yearly goals, and provided regular feedback on performance• Coached engineers on continued career growth and established mentoring relationships for junior engineers to gain knowledge and experience• Provided leadership for continuous improvement and adherence Agile development principles (Scrum, SAFe Agile), including leading all ceremonies - sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives• Worked cross-functionally across the organization, collaborating with partners in Product, UX, DevOps, Engineering, and executive leadership to highlight risks and help resolve anything impeding successful delivery• Worked extensively with Product Management teams to ensure requirements are prioritized and well understood for the development team to decompose and deliver• Regularly provided roadmaps and KPI's to engineering and executive leadership to align organization on progress towards meeting engineering and company goals• Assisted in strategic planning to align team goals with company objectives• Technology stack: React, Typescript, C++• AWS Services: EC2, S3• Infrastructure: Jest (unit tests), Playwright (end-to-end tests), ESLint, Prettier, Bazel (code automation), Skia (graphics rendering), Emscripten (web assembly code generation), CI/CD in Gitlab, MixPanel (Telemetry)

Seattle, Washington, Us

In this role, I was tasked with building out a team of engineers to build an EdTech SaaS application built on TypeScript, React, and AWS cloud technologies.• Recruited and hired complete team of software engineers tasked with building a dynamic whiteboard application built for learning environments• Led agile project management for an offshore team (China) tasked with maintaining a collaborative and cloud-based delivery application for remote or hybrid teaching environments.• Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification

Plano, Tx, Us

Oversee 3 engineering teams (including one offshore) developing a cloud enterprise SaaS product built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Provided people management, agile project management, requirement definition, and overall guidance and leadership to the team. • Drove delivery for directory and on-call scheduling microservices for a SaaS clinical communications application, leveraging React/Typescript, Lambda functions written in C#, NoSQL (Dynamo DB) and Aurora Serverless databases, including integration between a legacy and cloud platform• Regularly report status and metrics to executive leadership such as team efficiency/velocity, defect management, progress against organizational deliverables, deployment frequency• Technology stack: React, Typescript, C#, NoSQL (DynamoDB), SQL (Aurora Serverless)• AWS Services: API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, Kinesis, SES, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless• Infrastructure: CI/CD in Gitlab

Plano, Tx, Us

Oversaw an engineering team developing a cloud enterprise SaaS product built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Provided direct management for up to 9 software engineers. • Executed 360-degree peer feedback reviews for 5-8 employees on a quarterly basis• Developed a framework for career development for software and quality engineers within the organization • Heavily recruited and hired five new employees, leading the recruiting effort within the department for several engineering candidates.

Plano, Tx, Us

Provided leadership to a development team ranging from 5-9 software and quality assurance engineers.• Facilitated SCRUM ceremonies and coached team 7-10 team members on Agile and Scrum best practices. • Successfully instilled a mindset of inspection and adaption and was influential in improving how team executes, demonstrated by increased team velocity, improved feedback from stakeholders, and lower defects• Established a quarterly 360-degree review process to provide timely and consistent feedback, which was well received and rolled out to the rest of the department.• Identified and determined how to report on metrics that were valuable for engineering organization. Utilized multi-phased research and collaboration effort to establish a set of metrics that were used to report to up to department and executive leadership on the quality and frequency of deliverables.

Led three different scrum teams in multiple roles, serving as a people manager, ScrumMaster, and Product Owner.• Prioritized and led development efforts for a product with revenues of +$15 Million annually. • Managed senior and junior level engineers including conducting quarterly and yearly performance reviews, coaching, career development, and recruitment. • Collaborated with colleagues throughout the organization, including IT, Operations, Product Development, Marketing, as well as international teams located in Poland and the United Kingdom• Led and participated in several departmental task forces, focused on operational and cultural improvements.

Led the quality assurance of development projects throughout the Software Development Life Cycle. Maintained communication with individuals involved in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle• Provided status on test effort and communicated and helped resolve impediments• Reviewed and provided feedback on software requirement and design specifications• Developed test plan and test cases. Developed automated test scripts• Executed black box and white box test cases• Participated in quarterly and yearly performance evaluations• Utilized my domain knowledge and technical experience to mentor four junior-level engineers