Zachary Harrington
Zachary Harrington

Senior Software Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 22 Oct 2026
Location
Cranston, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior Software Engineer with more than 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, full-stack applications, cloud infrastructure, and data integrations. My primary strengths are distributed systems, API development, asynchronous processing, and production reliability.

I build services with Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and NestJS. I have extensive experience designing REST and GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, microservices, and integration workflows that connect complex systems reliably.

I work extensively with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Nginx, and CI/CD automation. I focus on making deployments repeatable, services observable, and infrastructure maintainable through containerization, infrastructure as code, and operational documentation.

I have strong experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and RabbitMQ. I optimize database queries, implement resilient messaging workflows, design idempotent event processing, and improve application performance through caching and connection tuning.

I provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, engineering mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and operations teams. I have delivered measurable improvements in latency, release frequency, incident detection, and overall system reliability.

Skills

37 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Analytics

Application Hosting

Data Stores

Languages & Frameworks

Monitoring

Experience

Career history

Senior Software Engineer Cleo

Architect distributed backend services for member eligibility and plan retrieval using TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. Reduced p95 latency by 50% while improving service scalability and maintainability.

Standardize Linux infrastructure and containerized Python and Node.js workloads with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Nginx. Lead architecture reviews and mentoring, automate CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and improve operational reliability through Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, runbooks, and service documentation.

Senior Software Engineer Personify Health

Designed GraphQL aggregation services and resilient REST integrations using TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Built Kafka-based event ingestion with asynchronous consumers, batching, and idempotent processing supporting more than 1.6 million events per day.

Developed React and Next.js administration tooling backed by GraphQL services. Led technical design reviews, mentored engineers, implemented Jest and Playwright testing, and optimized PostgreSQL indexing, queries, caching, and connections to reduce p95 query latency from 640 ms to 190 ms.

Software Engineer Virgin Pulse

Modernized JavaScript backend services to TypeScript and NestJS, adding typed validation, standardized error handling, PostgreSQL access, and automated unit testing. Developed RabbitMQ workers for notification and reward processing using Node.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Docker.

Built a React and TypeScript administration interface integrated with GraphQL and PostgreSQL, reducing manual eligibility investigations by 26%. Improved service monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and structured logging, and optimized Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, and Nginx configurations for peak workloads.

Integration Developer Bryant University

Developed Python REST integration services for student and course records using PostgreSQL staging and validation. Built Node.js enrollment synchronization services with versioned APIs and Redis retry handling, reducing propagation time from four hours to 18 minutes.

Created React and TypeScript operational tooling for integration troubleshooting and recovery. Automated MySQL-to-PostgreSQL synchronization with Python and Linux jobs, implemented RabbitMQ asynchronous processing with retry and dead-letter queues, and containerized utilities using Docker and Nginx.

Web Developer HIS Digital

Developed responsive web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with reusable components that improved consistency and maintainability across client projects. Built Node.js REST services with MySQL persistence and request validation supporting more than 10,000 monthly submissions.

Introduced reusable JavaScript and React components for navigation, search, and content presentation. Configured Linux and Nginx hosting environments with Git-based deployments, caching, compression, and access logging to improve page delivery performance.

Education

Learning history

University of Rhode Island

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

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