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Zach McCormick

About me

Zach graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2013. He has worked for a number of companies both as a FTE and consultant/contractor, and specializes in web applications, mobile applications, distributed systems, and software systems engineering. His main languages of choice are Python and Java, but has experience working on systems in JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, and Scala as well.

He currently works for Braze (formerly known as Appboy) as a Senior Software Engineer, working with technology like Ruby, Rails, Sidekiq, MongoDB, and more!

My Projects

  • Django Heroku Template 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 Heroku Template A guide and template for using GeoDjango - a Django configuration with GIS support. This template also uses Redis, Postgres, and Celery.
  • Django Related Select Adds AJAX-powered select fields to Django in a DRY way.

Recent Posts all posts

Code Vision
posted in Software Development
Mon 18 June 2018
Leaving Nashville
posted in Life
Fri 02 March 2018
Proverbs and Programming
posted in Engineering Management
Tue 02 January 2018
Running GeoDjango on Heroku (August 2017)
posted in Software Development
Wed 16 August 2017
DevOps and Horizontal Scaling: Part 3
posted in Engineering Management
Tue 25 July 2017
DevOps and Horizontal Scaling: Part 2
posted in Engineering Management
Thu 29 June 2017
DevOps and Horizontal Scaling: Part 1
posted in Engineering Management
Wed 28 June 2017
Tags for Sentry for Android
posted in Software Development
Tue 28 February 2017
GitHub Fork and PR Model — “Unknown Repository”
posted in Software Development
Thu 21 April 2016
Docker, Ubuntu 14.04, and apt-show-versions
posted in Software Development
Wed 14 October 2015
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