Zach Romano Email & Phone Number

United States

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Development & Design:- Designed/led full-stack development of ‘deactivate user’ feature as an alternative to deleting them- Created a DynamoDB table to store privacy related policies based on a user’s domain name- Analyzed service performance with Locust to enable service to reach 4,000+ requests per second- Improved caching and use of replicas to reduce load on database by over 10 million reads per hour- Led an effort to upgrade essential company-wide libraries to Java 17 and SpringBoot 3DevOps:- Profiled memory/CPU utilization to determine optimal Kubernetes pod and JVM sizing- Established a testing strategy that enabled high-frequency and high-confidence deploys- Created a tool that automatically creates a pull request to update our dependencies to latest versionTeaching:- Taught and encouraged modern Java/Spring practices and became the ‘go-to’ SpringBoot developer- Mentored an intern and guided them on improving the SCIM interface with Azure Active Directory- Introduced team to build technologies such as Gradle and Liquibase to improve pipeline speeds

Arlington, Va, Us

Development: - Co–produced an app to optimize purchasing that discovered $1 billion in unrealized savings - Utilized Spring Security and OAuth2 to properly authenticate and authorize users - Co-developed an app that generates GitLab-CI pipelines to test and deploy existing appsDevOps: - Established scalable Selenium browser tests that must pass prior to deployment - Identified and resolved over 150 bugs in production by adding SonarQube and Coverity - Created a code review process for a team of 15 developers that previously did not do them - Implemented Blue/Green deploys so that applications can be released with zero downtime - Introduced a team to persistent chat and set up webhooks for live alerting of failuresTeaching: - Utilized paired programming to teach modern development practices for 1500+ hours - Taught Extreme Programming principles such as Test-Driven Development and CI/CD - Facilitated courses to train developers on deploying software to the cloud

Arlington, Va, Us

- Second Rotation in the Systems Engineering Rotation Program - Created a website using .NET to host real-time visualizations created by our team- Visualized data in Tableau that eliminated hundreds of hours spent on presentations annually- Connected engineering, production, and supply chain data to provide metrics on part changes all the way from design to installation-- Used R to process data on over 4,500 parts from 8 databases to determine if engineering changes will cause parts to arrive late-- Selected as one of the top four projects for 2018 in an organization of several thousand - Designed a risk management visualization package used by BCA, BDS, and Boeing IT

Arlington, Va, Us

- First Rotation in the Systems Engineering Rotation Program - Managed risks, issues, and opportunities for a team of 300+ people- Maintained proper risk mitigation plans for teams and individual engineers - Educated executives every week about the current level of risk on the 777X- Eliminated 90 engineer man-hours quarterly implementing report automation using VBA- Used R to aide a data analytics team by compressing several large data exports

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering