Zachary Hancock
Senior Software Engineer at SafeBase
Westford, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Hancock is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building back-end systems and full-stack web applications, currently based in Westford, Vermont and working at SafeBase. He has deep expertise in Python and Django from leading development and integrations on the Open edX platform—contributing to core LMS functionality and course-discovery services used by global education sites. Zachary pairs hands-on implementation (grading, curriculum models, enrollment logic) with technical leadership: he has led agile teams, driven adoption of the LTI standard, and migrated analytics pipelines from Hadoop/Vertica to DBT and Snowflake. Earlier work spans real-time energy telemetry and serverless AWS solutions, reflecting a strong background in data pipelines, MQTT/WebSocket streaming, and JavaScript front-ends. He combines open-source stewardship with pragmatic product-driven decisions, often surfacing priorities through cross-team data collection and vendor collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
backend10
data-service10
python10
back-end-development10
webservice10
django10
logging9
user-authentication9
authentication9
postgresql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/openedx-platform
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 75 commits, 175 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the back-end of the edX platform, as demonstrated by code changes in `lms/djangoapps/grades` and other files. Their work focused on implementing and improving gradebook functionality, specifically adding logging, representing gradebook overrides, and addressing enrollment completion. The user also worked on a user lookup utility, adding to overall functionality.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
openedx/course-discovery
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily focused on enhancing the course discovery service's backend functionality. Their contributions included adding new fields to the curriculum model and implementing related serializers for retrieving curriculum details. Furthermore, they worked on preventing circular program structures through signal handling. They also contributed to the command to load program fixtures and addressed related database constraint issues.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
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