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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.
  • Django Related Select Adds AJAX-powered select fields to Django in a DRY way.

Recent Posts all posts

Connected Content And The Slashdot Effect (Or How I Learned To Scale APIs)
posted in Software Development
Thu 20 June 2019
Achieving Resiliency With Queues: Building A System That Never Skips A Beat In A Billion
posted in Software Development
Thu 20 December 2018
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
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