TL;DR:Zachary Hamm is a software engineer with great experience in automation strategies, influenced heavily by a competitive drive and a creative side.

History

  1. — Staff Software Engineer— Polly

    Led innovation as a key stakeholder on the Platform team, designing product architecture, responsive component library toolkits, and developer experience enhancements.

  2. — Software Engineer II— Validic

    Responsible for all quality automation capabilities across patient and clinician healthcare-monitoring applications, both mobile and web. Essentially ran the Quality department for a long while.

  3. — Senior Application Developer— Nationwide Insurance Co.

    Created dataset validation pipelines for large-scale ETL workflows within the Investments and Agency departments, while also managing quality analysts and SDETs across those teams.

  4. — Product Developer— Huntington National Bank

    Owned multiple projects as test automation lead on an accessibly-minded bank account origination application within the Digital space.

  5. — Data Engineer— Ohio Valley Medical Center, Inc.

    Streamlined an efficient experience for surgeons to manage their weekly schedule of procedures through dashboards derived from MEDITECH data.

Values

Quality is paramount.

Whom or what uses a product is in turn affected by what they use. We define how a product is expected to function, and must stand by our statements. Quality is hard to measure, but one will know when it is missing. I ensure that measures remain in place that ensure high standards of usability remain today and tomorrow and stand above the rest.

Be proactive before reactive.

The easy solution may bring potential troubles later on. To limit those issues, I strive for well-defined solutions and being aware that I may need to fix something down the road. "Payment" up front is better than piling up loans.

Lead by example.

Before I ask others to keep a value, I must uphold it myself. To be a leader means to stand up for those in your care, to listen before speaking, to be present when called, and to compromise when necessary in producing outcomes.

Don't take it too seriously.

It's no fun when it's too corporate. Yet, this doesn't mean following rules that protect people. Work is just work. Leave room for some fun, and the solutions will come with it, dudes.