Zachary McKenna
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Zachary McKenna

Zachary McKenna

Software Engineer

English

Background


About

About

Zack hails from Philadelphia. He has a background as a Sound/Projection Designer and Engineer in the theater industry, and enjoys rock climbing, biking and board games.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer 2Comcast

    Mar, 2021 - Present

    Developed applications to help engineers manage Comcast's network infrastructure.

    • Built a serverless application that runs frequent tests on modems in Comcast's network to determine Docsis 3.1 capabilities and identify potential network interference.

    • Built an automation tool/API to automate the process of generating infrastructure in Sunbird DCIM.

    • Converted a serverless application done with Serverless Framework to AWS CDK, using infrastructure as code instead of configs managed in the AWS Console and YAML files.

  • Frontend DeveloperProsoft Clinical

    Jan, 2021 - Mar, 20221 year 2 months

    Worked on a digital document input overlay engine in order to allow digital data input for PDF documents.

    • Built out the interface for users to overlay html inputs over pre-existing PDF documents.

    • Juggled complicated application state in Vue to keep track of a huge amount of inputs and input conditions.

  • Software DeveloperZero Projects

    Sep, 2020 - Jan, 20213 months

    Developed an API for a client in order to consolidate, store and organize social media data for clients.

    • Created a workflow to pull data from Twitter, Facebook and Instagam API's, cache/organize it, and present it via an API.

    • Generated analytics from the data according to customer requirements

  • Frontend DeveloperUrality

    Nov, 2020 - Jan, 20212 months

    Worked mainly on the frontend React client, focusing on speeding up client render/load times and converted designs from UX/UI engineer to code.

    • Optimized and fixed issues mainly related to React hooks and rendering lifecycle.

    • Handled bug fixes and feature requests for the client.

    • Converted thier main website from a Wordpress site to a speedy JAM Stack site.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • iHat, Comcast

    Jun, 2022 - Nov, 20225 months

    The In Home Assesment Test

    • Handled jobs for all modems connected to the Comcast network

    • Scaled from small batches of jobs in development to hundreds of thousands in production within a year.

    • Built using AWS serverless services for scalability, speed and costs efficiency

  • DC Track Automation, Comcast

    Oct, 2022 - Jan, 20232 months

    Application for automating inventory management in Sunbird DCIM

    • Dynamic GraphQL Schema that can add new mutations automcatially based on S3 file contents.

    • Automates 20+ points of manual data entry per device created.

Skills

Skills

  • Node Application Development

    Node.js

    Typescript

    Functional

  • Dev Ops

    Github Actions

    Concourse

    Docker/K8s

  • Frontend Development

    React

    HTML

    CSS

  • AWS

    Step Functions

    Lambda

    SQS

    Serverless

Education

Education

  • Communications/Philosophy, Bachelor, Arcadia Univesity

    Sep, 2009 - Jun, 2013

Awards

Awards

  • KCACTF National Award In Sound Design , KCACTF

    Awarded on: Jun 14, 2013

    Award for sound design and music compositon for Alive!

Publications

Publications

Interests

Interests

  • Rock Climbing

    SportBouldering
  • Board Games

    Deck BuildersSocial DeductionEngine Builders
  • Video Games

    OverwatchSlay the SpireSatisfactory