Summary
Zachariah Cox is a software engineering leader and maintainer who builds developer tools and drives software supply chain security initiatives. As Director of Software Engineering for GitHub Repositories he led Repos security, served as technical architect for Rulesets and Properties, and oversaw major platform migrations to React, Vitess sharding, and Go rewrites. Previously at Microsoft he ran teams for Azure Pipelines and Repos supporting high-scale customers and the world’s largest git repo (Windows), giving him deep operational experience in orchestration and incident response. Earlier at SAS he single-handedly built cross-platform build orchestration, a C++ meta build system, and language interface generators that cut regressions and sped delivery. He’s also a contributor and maintainer on SLSA.dev, has a habit of turning engineers into managers (five to date), and builds dashboards and ops tooling to make technical debt visible and manageable.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill