Résumé
Zach Leatherman
Community
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Public Speaker in
9 countries:
27 conferences,
19 meetups,
7 barcamps,
16 podcasts,
and one University lecture.
- Events like JAMstack_conf (×2), Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference (×5), CSSConf, and the first ever Tech Meetup at The White House.
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Technical Writer on zachleat.com, a Web Development Blog.
- 332 posts since February 2007. On my writing,
- 3,934,606 lifetime pageviews and growing. Read the most popular ones
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Conference Organizer and Co-founder of NEJS CONF.
- 2015 to 2019: five conferences, 46 speakers, ~200 attendees per year.
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Lead Organizer for NebraskaJS, a JavaScript meetup.
- 2012 to 2018: 1,666 members and growing, 50+ speakers, 90+ events.
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Open Source
- Eleventy (☆ 17,132) creator and maintainer.
- Used in production by Google, V8, W3C, Cern, MIT, Stanford, WebPageTest, CSS-Tricks, Netlify, Red Hat, and others.
- Shipped 56 versions, with 10,192,772 downloads (npm), in use by 65K+ repositories (GitHub).
- Three-time winner of the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award in 2018, 2019, and 2022 and #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
- Addy Osmani called it “absolutely wonderful.”
- Chris Coyier said it was “almost fascinatingly simple.”
- Read more Eleventy testimonials from Mathias Bynens, Mina Markham, and others.
- Implemented and documented font loading strategies for both CSS Tricks and Smashing Magazine.
- Eleventy (☆ 17,132) creator and maintainer.
Professional
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Lead Software Developer for Font Awesome
Remote to
Bentonville,
AR
USA
- Sept 2024 to Present
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Creator and Maintainer of 11ty
Remote
- Nov 2017 to Present
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Developer Advocate for CloudCannon
Remote to
Dunedin
NZ
- August 2023 to May 2024
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Staff Engineer for Netlify
Remote to
San Francisco,
CA
USA
- February 2022 to July 2023
- Full time open source on Eleventy (read more above)
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Senior Web Developer for Netlify
Remote to
San Francisco,
CA
USA
- January 2020 to February 2022
- Migrated netlify.com to Eleventy and Vue, improving developer velocity, non-technical contributor workflow, and site performance.
- Shipped new Eleventy-based marketing sites (on a dev team of two) under very tight deadlines: jamstack.org, Jamstack Conf (×3), Headless Commerce Summit, Jamstack Community Survey, Your Year on Netlify. Helped on the Million Devs project (Vue).
- Developed serverless adapter to support live previews in Sanity CMS.
- Learn more from 2022 or 2021.
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Web Developer for Filament Group
Remote to
Boston,
MA
USA
- June 2012 to January 2020
- Web development and consulting focused on a web for everyone: Performance, Responsive Design, Accessibility, and more. Personal specialties included web fonts, accessible forms, and responsive tables.
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- Voted Agency of the Year, .net Awards 2015
- Worked with clients like LEGO, Akamai, Global News, rent.com, salary.com, ebay, CNN, Forrester Research, attivio, Objective Logistics, RetailMeNot, Liberty Mutual, and more.
- Standardized new project boilerplate and the release process for project maintenance.
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Front End Architect for Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha,
NE
USA
- June 2011 to May 2012
- Responsible for setting the company's direction for mobile web application development.
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- Developed a input-device independent reusable component library to serve both mobile web and hybrid native applications.
- Ownership of all company auth pages, internal/external and mobile/desktop. Used progressive enhancement to expand device support.
- Started an internal HTML5 and Open Web User Group to educate developers on new web platform features.
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Project Lead for Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha,
NE
USA
- July 2008 to May 2011
- Lead developer and support team for company-standard User Interface library and pattern library documentation used on web projects. Supported a large developer base (~1500 employees and contractors).
- Improved performance by reducing component initialization times between major versions by 5.2× using server side rendering.
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- 62 separate reusable components across 5 simultaneous major code branches and over 50 versions.
- Adapted to new i18n requirements and the marketing department's brand refresh, centrally applied to all web projects.
- Prevented an Adobe Flexpocalypse by opposing adoption of Adobe Flex as the primary UI development tool using the merits of the Open Web.
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Web Developer for Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha,
NE
USA
- June 2006 to July 2008
- Shipped three internal web apps, receiving ~15M hits per month.
- Developed build process for automated deployment including asset optimization, linting, integration and unit testing.
Education
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Computer Engineering at University of Nebraska
Lincoln,
NE
USA
- August 2001 to May 2006
- BS in Computer Engineering, Minor in Mathematics
- Course Work in Semantic Web, Computer Architecture, Data Structures and Algorithms, Database Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography and Security, GUI and Unix Programming, Operating Systems and Kernels
- Engineering Study Abroad program in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
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