Zach Hamilton Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

• Piloted the overhaul of a legacy codebase into a modern Next.js application, enhancing scalability and performance• Spearheaded the redesign initiative, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify pain points and establish project goals• Identified and eliminated redundant code segments, enhancing application modularity and optimizing developer experience• Implemented extensive test suites using Jest for unit and integration testing, achieving 90% code coverage project-wide• Created comprehensive technical documentation with Confluence, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer and on-boarding for new team members

• Collaborated with a team of talented software engineers to develop an open-source AWS Lambda management tool, with a focus on enhancing Lambda Layers management and developer efficiency• Integrated AWS SDK v3 for its ability to facilitate seamless interaction with AWS, empowering users to manage their layers more effectively, contributing to faster development and testing cycles• Utilized React’s reusable component architecture in conjunction with React Router to create a SPA to boost loading performance and minimize server calls, ensuring a seamless user experience• Modernized the codebase with TypeScript, adding strong and static typing to reduce the occurrence of silent errors, to enhance code quality and elevate maintainability over vanilla JavaScript• Architected Express backend for its single threaded event loop to facilitate the chaining of modularized middleware to streamline backend data flow, using JWTs to securely handle authenticated sessions and Bcrypt to verify password information• Reinforced reliability by applying comprehensive unit testing through Jest for it’s speed and parallelization, ensuringproper middleware and database functionality, and early detection of unwanted side effects• Enhanced the UI with Material UI components for consistent theme and styling, creating a user-centric interface that not only enhanced usability but also contributed to a visually appealing and engaging experience for users• Developed and maintained under tech accelerator OSLabs

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Demonstrated proficiency in Java fundamentals during lab sessions, aiding engineering students in fostering a deeper understanding of coding concepts, such as Object-Oriented programming and basic data structures and algorithms• Led frequent code reviews, delivering targeted feedback to 50+ engineering students, enhancing coding skills and assignment performance by providing valuable insights• Collaborated with faculty and instructors to assess and provide constructive feedback on assignments, projects, and homework, improving student coding skills and project outcomes