Adam Zaninovich
Lead Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Pismo Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Zaninovich is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience and deep specialization in Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView and OTP, currently shaping backend systems at DraftKings while also contributing at Jackpocket. He champions collaborative, learning-focused teams and modern engineering practices—TDD, CI, pair programming—and pairs that mindset with hands-on skills across embedded systems (Nerves, Embedded C), native iOS, DevOps (AWS, Docker) and databases. His background spans startups, enterprise architecture, and freelance work, giving him a knack for translating product needs into maintainable, scalable systems. An avid open-source tinkerer (creator of @alice-bot) who also enjoys Nix and Emacs, he blends pragmatic engineering with curiosity rooted in a Cognitive Science HCI foundation from UCSD.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoComputer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Bakersfield
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Github Skills (45)
slack-bot10
elixir10
spotify-api10
spotify10
authentication9
gossip7
grouping6
swift6
plex6
ruby-on-rails6
functional-programming6
sql6
gleam6
mongoid6
greatest-n-per-group6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adamzaninovich/vimfiles
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
adamzaninovich/awesome_friendz_alice
Feb 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:136 commits, 15 PRs, 142 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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