Zane Shelby

Led a team of four to six engineers responsible for building and maintaining Quartet's backend web services.

• Managed a team that built and maintained a query-driven data access API.
• Worked with a colleague to architect a long-term engineering roadmap for Quartet's backend services.
• Provided technical leadership for the team as it updated the query-driven data access API toward being GraphQL-compliant.

Founded a team that built and maintained Upworthy's analytics infrastructure. Later led team that design and implemented tools to support Upworthy's editorial department.

• Implemented a nightly batch data pipeline to transform, enrich, and store behavioral data about how readers interact with Upworthy articles.
• Worked with a team to implement a high frequency, low throughput, streaming data pipeline that brought data ingestion latency from hours down to minutes.
• Led a team that implemented a worker application that continuously monitors how Upworthy articles are performing within various social networks.
• Conceputalized, pitched, and oversaw the development of the single-page web application writers use to draft and publish Upworthy articles.
• Provided technical mentorship for a team of two junior software engineers.

Hired as the second individual contributor on a team that eventually grew to have more than fifty members. Worked on a wide variety of applications and services that supported the President's eventual reelection in November.

• Worked with a team to implement a web service that, when provided partial or ambiguous personally identifiable information, matched a person with publicly available voter data.
• Worked with a team to implement an API that facilitated data exchange between the campaign, its vendors, and their respective web applications and services.
• Implemented a web application that centrally handled authentication and authorization for the campaign's other web applications.
• Implemented an Android application that empowered volunteers to accept donations on behalf of the campaign via their cell phones.

Maintained and enhanced the Tripit iOS and Android mobile applications.

• Implemented a redesign of the sign up / sign in flow that dramatically increased conversion rates.

Maintained and enhanced Cozi's web application and custom deployment system.

• Worked with a team to maintain and enhance the Cozi web application.
• Worked with a team to implement tools to assist with building, deploying, and monitoring Cozi's web applications and services.

Worked as part of the Emerging Media Team to implement web services to support aQuantive's expansion from display advertising into new domains such as television, video games, and mobile.

• Implemented a data pipeline that transformed, enriched, and stored viewer interaction data from 'set-top' cable boxes.
• Implemented web applications and services to handle the uploading, storage, transcoding, and caching of video ad assets.

Comprehensive Honors