Zach McCormick's Personal Blog

Zach McCormick

About me

Zach is a software engineer and manager passionate about building and maintaining global-scale distributed systems. He has experience with distributed systems, web applications, and mobile applications across a variety of industries, including marketing automation, fintech, IoT, healthcare, and mobile cybersecurity, as well as across a variety of languages and technologies, including Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and others. He currently works for Braze managing the engineering team behind Canvas, a workflow engine for marketing automation that is responsible for orchestrating hundreds of millions of messages per day.

My Projects

  • Django on Heroku Template for developing modern Django applications on Heroku using Redis and Postgres for data stores and queues, and using Celery for asynchronous tasks.
  • Django GIS on Heroku A guide and template for using GeoDjango - a Django configuration with GIS support. This template also uses Redis, Postgres, and Celery.
  • Django React Multi-Page on Heroku A template for combining Django with React by rendering individual applications as Django pages (with initial state provided by the view). Uses Redis, Postgres, and Celery.

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