Summary
Zack Steinkamp is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with a career spanning web-scale systems, music technology, and platform engineering. He has built and led teams across Groupon, Symantec, Splunk, Stripe, and NGINX, and is currently applying his breadth as a self-employed Music Tech Software Developer creating tools for musicians, such as the Knobbler parameter and Ableton Live navigation surface. At NGINX he bootstrapped a new product initiative, assembled the dev team, and introduced CI/CD to deploy incremental updates to production multiple times a day. His experience covers frontend, backend, data infrastructure, security, devops, and datacenter automation, plus hands-on startup leadership from founding Dipity. Based in Scotts Valley, California, Zack holds a BS in Business / MIS / CS from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and champions collaboration and purposeful work as the driver of high-performing teams.
10 years of coding experience