Summary
Isaac Powell is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable web and backend systems, currently contributing to product development at Zylo from the Portland area. He brings deep C#, .NET, and SQL Server expertise from roles across civic platforms, loan servicing, and vocational software, and has hands-on experience with PHP, MySQL, and legacy Visual Basic systems. Isaac enjoys solving engineering puzzles that make users' lives easier and applies that mindset to shipping pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Outside day-to-day work he experiments with game development and building AIs that play games, a hobby that sharpens his algorithmic thinking and creative problem-solving. His trajectory from IT support and automation to senior engineering roles reflects a practical, systems-oriented approach and a willingness to tackle both new features and operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Western Washington University
English, German