Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Work with the Chrome team at Google to improve the future of the Web.

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Engineering Manager - Web Platform
• This team owns the architecture, performance, and efficiency of the web servers and client-side UI. They are experts in client-side technologies like react and redux, as well as backend web server technologies like koa, webpack, and docker. Together we've shipped a chrome-featured PWA, upgraded to Node 8, dockerized everything, and migrated from python/django to node/koa.
• Engineering Manager - API Platform
• The service owned by this team is one of the highest traffic APIs in the world. Serving all 250M+ monthly users across all of our clients (Android, iOS, desktop web, and mobile web) this team is packed full of Python experts, distributed systems nerds (RPC), and performance wizards. We have 2M+ lines of Python, an oauth service in Go, and lots of Thrift.
• Engineering Manager - Offsite Engagement
• This team embeds javascript in other people's sites to make the web more engaging and rich. They own the Pinterest browser extension for Chrome/Firefox, embeddable widgets, and that little Save button you've seen everywhere.

Dec 2014 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Technical Lead - Mobile Web Platform
• Drove the technical vision for the new version of Pinterest in mobile browsers. This was a complete rewrite of www.pinterest.com for mobile web launched as an experiment after only 2 months of development. Featured at Chrome Dev Summit 2017/2018.
• Senior Software Engineer - Web Platform
• Drove web architecture, training, and direction for the future of Pinterest web, particularly our progressive webapp strategy. Authored 3 open-source projects for building, experimenting, and testing service workers.
• Technical Lead - Developer Platform
• Drive business experiences via analytics and the developer API. I was responsible for the developer website, the Javascript SDK, embeddable widgets, and v1 of native Pinterest-hosted video.

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

• Speaking Engagements
• Chrome Dev Summit
• ForwardJS
• Fullstack Fest Spain
• JSDays Italy
• React Rally
• Mobile + Web Dev Conference
• Developer Week
• Open-Source Projects
• service-workers
• https://github.com/pinterest/service-workers
• react-pinterest
• https://github.com/pinterest/react-pinterest
• react-bash
• https://github.com/zackargyle/react-bash
• Brainstorm
• https://github.com/zackargyle/brainstorm
• redux-async-queue
• https://github.com/zackargyle/redux-async-queue
• react-bind-decorator
• https://github.com/zackargyle/react-bind-decorator
• redux-immutable-reducer
• https://github.com/zackargyle/redux-immutable-reducer
• angularjs-django-rest-framework-seed
• https://github.com/zackargyle/angularjs-django-rest-framework-seed

Jan 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Build software systems for PlayStation 3 and 4, focused particularly on social features. Pure JS, no frameworks.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Downtown Provo

• Verisage is a software consulting startup. I worked on projects ranging from full-stack web with AngularJS and Django, to embedded Android development.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Provo, Utah Area

• Students at the 9 week development camp are assigned a mentor to help them learn Python, Django, Javascript, and AngularJS. I'm a mentor for the course starting in January, 2014.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr · Sandy,UT

• Assist the senior engineer in the design of professional audio signal processing products. For example: amplifiers, Crossovers, Driveracks, EQ's, etc.
• Manage electronic paperwork for parts and end products.
• Enjoy the company of great engineers with great experience, and do my best to learn from their many skills!