Zack Sheppard Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, GB

As the first engineer working on Addition I have been responsible for guiding the initial build out of our website, webapp, and API. This has involved both creating a reliable, scalable webapp for users but also building a secure infrastructure to keep users' financial data and correspondence secure.

London, England, United Kingdom

Since moving to the UK, I've been self-employed by my own limited company. This has allowed me to both continue to mentor, advise, and aid younger startups, while also being able to realize some of my own digital product ideas.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

From 2018 until 2020, I worked from Brooklyn as a contract or freelance engineer. Joining teams in need of either mentoring or pure development, I aimed to bring the skill and efficacy of a senior engineer in terms of both knowledge, productivity, and leadership, while maintaining the flexibility to be brought in only as long as needed.

New York City

Starting as the manager for the Swarm iOS and Android Teams, I lead Swarm's mobile efforts through several very difficult development and release cycles. For the last 6 months of my tenure, I also served as the manager for both the Foursquare City Guide iOS and Android teams.

Greater New York City Area

In addition to being an engineer and manager, I also founded and managed the company's in-office bar program while at Foursquare. I selected the beers, wines, and spirits for employees and guests to enjoy after 5 (and even acting as bartender when I have a spare evening).

Greater New York City Area

I joined the iOS Team to help build the Swarm 1.0 application. Working in a team of just two full time engineers, we built the entire application from scratch, interfacing with iOS Developers in other parts of the company to ensure a consistent experience across Foursquare's apps. For 2016 and 2017, I was also the Tech Lead of the iOS Platform.

Greater New York City Area

I joined Foursquare as an API engineer on their server team. This role quickly expanded to also include web engineering, where I was responsible for migrating large portions of the foursquare.com website over to a new stateless server technology. I also was the owner of the swarmapp.com website during construction and launch.

For most of high school and college, I worked as a freelance web designer and developer. I was contracted to create more than 20 websites for various organizations, ranging from international advertising production firms to local and student-run non-profits.

Greater New York City Area

I worked as a TA for the 1004 Introduction to CS class. My responsibilities included one-on-one tutoring of students, teaching large review sessions, and grading student assignments.

Greater New York City Area

I was a contributing writer for the dining, nightlife, and neighborhoods sections for Inside New York city guide.

Greater New York City Area

As an intern with the Google Apps team, I worked on the Sheets product. I aided in the migration of core technologies of the product to a new underlying framework, and was responsible for the development of the "paint format" functionality.

Greater New York City Area

I worked at the Columbia Spectator, Columbia University's daily newspaper, and attained the title of Senior Web Editor. I was responsible for handling the digital content update and publishing one night a week, as well as developing further web-based projects for the newspaper.

Greater New York City Area

I was brought in as a co-founder and primary developer at ColumbiaClasses.com, a new course rating and discovery system for Columbia University students. The project was successful and popular among students, but my cofounder (Ryan Bubinski, later of Codecademy) and I moved onto other projects when requests to integrate more tightly with the University's.

Greater New York City Area

I worked as an intern on the web crawler team. The goal of my project was to build a framework that would enable the Google Indexer to understand Microsoft Office-formatted files it discovered on the internet. I had to research the structure of those documents, work with other teams (primarily the Docs team), and build RPC-based systems to translate.

North Adams, MA

At VoodooVox I was responsible for writing software and websites that employ their MyVox technologies, which provide an interface between telephones and the internet. In this position, I completed several Mac Dashboard Widgets, a Facebook application, and web 2.0 applications that interacted with users via the telephone. I also assisted the brainstorming.

Williamstown, MA

Though initially hired as a web design intern, my responsibilities here came to include web design and upkeep, email design and implementation, and the design and programming of their billing software, written in Microsoft C#.

Williamstown, MA

I was a technical support employee for Williams College OIT. I was responsible for initializing and reinitializing hardware, as well as delivery, setup, and support of hardware and software to college faculty.

Ba, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ADI, Latenite Theatre (Co-President, as well as acting at times as Director, Producer, Writer, or Actor).

Coursework, Computer Science

While finishing my high school education nearby, I also completed two semesters of CS coursework at Williams College thanks to their.

High School

Activities and Societies: Student Council, Student Office (Treasurer), Junior Classical League (Webmaster for the school and then later.