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👋 Heyo, it's me Zander 👋

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Polyglot, problem solver and remote-worker, and engineering leader. I enjoy solving problems according to their technical specifications, ecosystem support, business longevity1.

I've been the CTO of a 50 person startup, a Sr. Director of Engineering, led a deeply technical platform group ~25 software engineers and ~3 managers and most recently built out our Database Platform Team as the Tech Lead Manager.

I'm deeply interested in results and less interested in the exact tools/technology we use.

📜 My recent blog posts

👷 What I'm currently working on

🌱 My latest projects

  • zph/wait-until - wait-until helper script and micro-library
  • zph/polylint - Extensible generic linter framework
  • zph/runbook - 📖 Library for interactive runbooks and surrounding toolkit 💻

📖 Interests and Excitement:

  • Founding my own startup
  • Databases at scale
  • Log Architecture and Data pipelines [eg]
  • High throughput distributed & fault tolerant systems

🪖 Career Priorities

  1. Rapid growth and learning
  2. While delivering high business impact
  3. That's sustainable and low maintenance
  4. Striking the right balance of speed and precision (depending on circumstance)
  5. Enjoying the work I do and the people I work with

🏙 Business Domains

  • Fintech
  • Small/medium startups
  • High traffic websites
  • Media companies

👨‍💻 Engineering Domains

  • Platform
  • Online Storage
  • Infrastructure
  • Developer Efficiency

🏫 Technologies I want to spend more time with professionally and personally (ORDER BY interest DESC):

  • NewSQL, NoSQL, ClassicSQL
    • TiDB
    • ScyllaDB
    • FoundationDB
    • TigrisData2
    • Postgresql
    • MySQL
    • MongoDB3 tooling, operations and cluster management
  • GRPC & Protobufs (they're the future 😍 and the past 🤔)
  • Golang (fast, predictable, dull and small syntax surface area 🐿️))
  • Rust or Haskell (to improve my craft of software engineering)4
  • Elixir (in the right niche circumstances and for the pragmatism of OTP 🔮)5

I enjoy programming, pairing (1-1), remote teams, Open Source Software, databases, commandline tools, FP and some other important buzzwords.

I'm very fortunate to be happily employed with a few standing offers but if you want to offer me the chance to work on challenging things with kind folks, I'm happy to chat. To set realistic expectations6, it's unlikely I'll be drawn away from my current team because they're wonderful folks <3.

🔭 Latest releases I've contributed to

🔨 My recent Pull Requests

📓 Gists

⭐ Recent Stars

  • AstroNvim/AstroNvim - AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins (1 day ago)
  • uber-go/zap - Blazing fast, structured, leveled logging in Go. (2 days ago)
  • bytebase/bytebase - The GitLab/GitHub for database DevOps. World's most advanced database DevOps and CI/CD for Developer, DBA and Platform Engineering teams. (3 days ago)

📫 How to reach me

-ZPH zander@xargs.io

To send secure messages, use my public keys on github combined with age

Footnotes

  1. Low excitement, high productivity and reliable/performant systems ↩

  2. If/when it gets off the ground it has the right foundation to be groundbreaking b/c of FDB. ↩

  3. MongoDB and I have a complicated relationship. It helped successfully launch and scale three startups of mine and was a poor choice for datastore in 2 of 3. I've come to appreciate deeply what it accomplished in the 1 of 3 where it was the most correct choice available and also look forward to evolving onto a new platform that can learn from the architectural mistakes of MongoDB. Ironically, by knowing it deeply and the alternatives, I've become hawkish defender of Mongo when people throw around technically barbs about this datastore. It's as if the trauma I've experienced have bonded me to it like Gollum and The Ring. ↩

  4. Rust is a language that can still help me grow as a software engineer and one I'd enjoy a sincere practical reason to become proficient with. ↩

  5. I'd likely only use elixir from the ground up in a company as adopting it into existing company was challenging and problematic. ↩

  6. If I look at all offers/outreach, I've accepted around 1 in 500 ↩

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