Zachary Babbitt Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Investigated Copilot bugs in Excel Online, Mac and Windows to increase user happiness with CopilotDrove telemetry experiements in C++ to lower customer pain in the Excel coauthoring space. Coordinated with PMs, Designers and Subject Matter Experts to deliver new features in C/C++ and Typescipt to increase Coauthoring Stability in ExcelLed teams of engineers to drive qulity Excel resulting in bug fixes and made bug fixes to a wide variety of Excel feature areasWorked on cross platform Excel to support Windows, Online and Mac Excel functionalityOwned UI devolpment for feature work in Coauthoring Stability of Excel and worked with project leads to ship to productionMonitored telemetry using Kusto and internal tools to ensure reliable feature experience to usersCreated technical specification documents for how to implement new features and worked closely with others to deliver them to usersRan bug bashes to ensure product quality, filed bugs and followed up on fixes when problems were encountered Mentored junior engineers, including interns, and led a feature crew to build out a new feature for Excel CoauthoringMentored multiple intern projects resulting in the successful hire of new internsConducted A/B experiments for different features in Excel using KustoDeveloped expertise in Excel's file open flow and collaborated with other engineers to improve the file open performance and securityCreated a ramp up guide for new hires on the Excel codebase, analyzed feedback given and helped to improve the courseInvestigated and fixed bugs in a wide variety of Excel features including Copilot, Sheet View and legacy Excel featuresLeveraged and coordinated with Office partners and dependency teams to integrate thier work into Excel

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on Excel Online with a feature crew to develop the React based UI for Sheet View Engineered cross platform solutions to deliver features and bug fixes for Excel for MacDeveloped data pipelines to signal coauthoring issues and increased Excel Coauthoring Stability by a significant percentageCollaborated with others on my team to develop a deep technical expertise in Excel's code base

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked with a manager, a mentor and several project managers to choose, design and implement a feature for Microsoft Excel for MacGained experiece working with a massive codebase with the help of a teamParticipated in code reviewsDemo'd a new feature to my team

Lead a team to develop the new Android application for MyQVOConducted interviews and made hiring recommendationsCoordinated with the other tech leads to finish the work efficientlyMade design decisions with my team on how the new Android application would be builtImplemented new features for the Android application

Implemented and debugged features for the website and mobile application using PHP, JavaScript and MySQLWorked on Arqade, a mobile game, with a team of developers and designers using C# and UnityMentored a company sponsored hackathon to help high school students learn how to code

Wrote particle physics simulations in C++ and Geant4Self taught and taught a C++ framework, Geant4 Built laboratory websitesWorked with a small inter-disciplinary team to produce theoretical data

Performed research on Transverse coolingBuilt a lens and mirror array; increased laboratory efficency by 10%Analyzed and presented analysis to a large group of peers