Distributed Systems and Cloud Architect

Zachary is a Staff Software Engineer and Distributed Systems Architect with 20+ years of experience. He is the author of "Hadoop with Python" (O’Reilly Media). He specializes in scaling mission-critical data platforms and high-availability backend systems. His recent achievements include architecting a cloud-native agentic AI platform using Gemini 2.5 and custom MCP servers (sub-5s latency), building a 15TB+ biomedical graph platform on AWS, reducing infra costs from $100k to <$10k/month, engineering a 60TB NoSQL clinical discovery platform with 1-second p99 query latency, and scaling engineering organizations from founding hire to 20+ developers and $4M+ ARR. He is seeking Staff/Principal Engineering, Engineering Management, or Principal Architect roles and thrives in high-growth environments where technical strategy meets deep execution.