Summary
Zachary Mayhew is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and low-level systems, currently at SEP working on ASP.NET, React SPAs, and AWS Lambda-driven tooling. He has a broad language palette — Rust, C++, TypeScript, C#, Java, Kotlin, Scala — and a proven track record of speeding up build systems (notably a ~400% compile-time improvement on Haxe toolchains at Xperi). His background includes contributions to media stacks like ExoPlayer and a Chromium cronet fork for streaming analytics, plus practical experience fixing ARM SIMD issues on Android TV. Zachary also brings teaching and platform migration experience from Techlab Education, where he rebuilt backend services in TypeScript/Firebase and taught Python and Java. Based in Carmel, Indiana, he combines curiosity for new languages and open-source collaboration with a focus on shipping pragmatic, performance-sensitive solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Monta Vista High School
Chinese, English