About

Zachary Shelton is a skilled Software Developer with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has over 2.85 years of relevant experience in the field of software development, with a focus on mobile application development. Zachary has a strong background in hands-on positions as an Application Developer at multi-billion dollar Fortune 100 CVS Health, and as a Computer Programmer for KPM Solutions, utilizing Java Server Faces, JavaFX, Spring, Primefaces, and related applications. He has extensive experience using Java EE to improve application deployment time by 50%+ and creating Boston HistoryTrek Apple App Store application for iPhone/iPad using Swift 3, Microsoft Azure SQL, and PHP. Zachary's accomplishments include building a retail store-level reporting application, developing an associated data encryption and distribution interface, and optimizing corporate operations by devising web-based user interfaces across three sites. Currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, Zachary has enacted rolling deployments to cut down deployment time on patch releases by over 50%. He has written a python tool to handle stateful, parallel rolling deploys over 1000+ compute instances in 10 different AWS and Azure regions. He has also utilized Chef to install the correct packages and restart the application servers triggered over SSH with said python tool. Zachary has improved upon already created Jenkins jobs to support the new rolling deploy mode, along with being able to do traditional blue-green deploys. Zachary has worked extensively to plan and execute SCM migration from Perforce to Git. He has designed and implemented an extensive Jenkins workflow that tested developers' code via a live app stack deployed to Kubernetes before it was merged back to the main branch for 300+ engineers. Zachary has split up the code compilation and distribution steps into easily digestible pieces that could be fanned out onto Jenkins Kubernetes agents to decrease time to feedback for developers. He has built a system to build developers' Docker images (8 images per PR) in massive parallel using Kaniko deployed onto an EKS cluster in AWS. He has automated end-to-end developer workflow using Probot and GitHub Enterprise, to allow for the GitHub pull request view to be the. Zachary has a diverse tech stack, including Software Engineering, Jenkins, AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Docker, test, SQL, Python, infra, Java, Selenium, PHP, Spring, DevOps, Mobile, Web, and QA.