Zach Hannum
Senior Software Engineer at Posit PBC
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Hannum is a Senior Software Engineer based in Apex, NC with a decade of experience building embedded and consumer-facing systems, currently contributing to Posit PBC. He brings deep C/C++ expertise from roles at Garmin and Plexus, shipping firmware and mid-level frontend features for large fleets of devices as well as developing safety-focused verification for medical-grade systems. Zach also has entrepreneurial chops—founding hardware and apparel startups that leveraged 3D printing and body-scanning tech—showing an ability to take ideas from prototype to market. As an open-source contributor to the widely used RStudio IDE, he improved session and job management and hardened CI pipelines, blending backend and DevOps strengths. Practical, product-minded, and comfortable across the stack, he thrives at the intersection of embedded constraints, developer tooling, and production infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (11)
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
build-automation10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
git8
r8
quarto8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:131 reviews, 65 commits, 139 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach contributed to the core functionalities of the RStudio IDE. Their work focused on implementing session management features, specifically allowing for the suspension of sessions during Quarto jobs, and integrating with the broader job management system within the IDE. Additionally, the user was involved in configuring Jenkins pipelines to build and test pull requests, including adding sccache support and enhancing remote reference handling for private repositories. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the IDE's core functionalities and development infrastructure.
iderrstudio
zachhannum/the-dark-between
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:97 commits, 81 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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