Summary
Zack Mitkin is a self-taught software engineer with 9 years of experience delivering full-stack, data engineering, and devops solutions across startups and consulting. Based in California, he currently serves as Software Engineer at Maxima and Software Development Consultant at Portage Labs, guiding end-to-end delivery and architectural decisions. His track record spans founding engineering at Adaptive Pulse and hands-on work across Strata Research, Catalyst Ventures, and other ventures, with deep experience in Kubernetes, Apache Spark, and Airflow. He is proficient across Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, and C#/.NET, and builds both frontend interfaces (Vue, React, Svelte, Blazor, Flutter) and robust backends (Go, NodeJS, GraphQL, DynamoDB, Amplify). He emphasizes code quality, maintainability, and scalable design, training teams and planning migrations for legacy systems. An avid learner, he continually adapts to new technologies and project scales, turning complex requirements into practical, production-ready software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Self-educated
English