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Zach Snoek

Software Engineer
Detroit, MI
linkedin.com/in/zachsnoek

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, C#, SQL
Technologies and Libraries
React.js, Node.js, Next.js, Chakra UI, styled-components, React Query, Git

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Aloft

Mar 2022 - Current
  • Delivered 20+ new features and pages with React, TypeScript, and Node for an internal real estate appraisal product with 100+ users
  • Created a performant map-based data visualization tool used in a next-generation appraisal product
  • Identified manual error-reporting solution used by stakeholders as inefficient and built an integrated replacement; reduced time to report issues by 50% and was used to report 13 critical issues in the first 2 months of use
  • Built reusable UI components with Chakra UI used by a team of 10 engineers
  • Organized, led, and presented at monthly engineering “lunch and learn” events

Software Engineer

Faithlife

Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
  • Built features for and maintained a communications application that sent 30,000+ emails and texts per week
  • Created a performant map-based data visualization tool used in a next-generation appraisal product
  • Designed and implemented an email and text unsubscribe feature
  • Implemented full-stack solutions for apps with React and TypeScript UIs and C# and MySQL web APIs
  • Researched, documented, and implemented solutions to ambiguous tasks
  • Collaborated with customer support to quickly identify and resolve user-impacting bugs

Software Engineer Intern

Faithlife

Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
  • Made improvements to a media editor component built with React and Fabric.js
  • Reduced the lines of code needed for consumers by 25% by refactoring the component’s API
  • Received an early full-time offer after 4 weeks of the 12-week internship

Education

B.A., Computer Science and Music (double major)

Hope College

  • Graduated magna cum laude and was employed as a TA for computer science courses
2016 - 2020

Projects

Technical blogging

Open source contributions

  • Contributor to Mirrorful, a tool for building design systems built with React and Chakra UI

IoT blind for ODL, Inc.

  • Contracted by an international blind manufacturer while a student to develop C++ software for an Internet of Things door blind
  • Created a prototype unit in 3 months that was shown at the International Builder’s Show in Las Vegas, NV