Zachary Angell

• Led the launch of Prefect Cloud's self-serve offering, allowing users to sign up without contacting sales and delivering $000s in new ARR

• Owned reliability strategy, enabling Prefect to offer SLAs to enterprise customers
• Implemented incident response processes to ensure rapid response times and clear communication

• Led design and implementation of key scaling initiatives to reduce incidents and deliver 99.9% uptime
• Led a team of software engineers to successfully complete projects within deadlines, ensuring high-quality end products
• Mentored junior engineers, helping them to advance multiple levels

- Scaled Prefect's new cloud platform from zero to millions of requests per day, while solely maintaining Prefect's legacy cloud platform

• Worked directly with the CEO and CTO to design, build, and ship Prefect 2.0
• Core maintainer of Prefect's open source library

• Company Overview: Fincura is a small (< 20 person) software company developing products for banks and other lenders to streamline digitization of financial statements.
• Lead Research & Development team, reporting directly to the CTO
• Responsible for the full life-cycle of a research project, from identifying customer requirements with the Product team to implementing production machine learning models
• Implemented and deployed machine learning models (Python) and user interface updates (Angular)

• Designed and implemented automated end-to-end testing using client databases
• Lead testing strategy during integration of a new web service component that empowered company’s largest client to implement a key risk management methodology
• Interfaced with Client Services, Professional Services, and Development teams to identify, track, and resolve client defects
• Served as Scrum Master - facilitated daily scrums, lookahead/story grooming, sprint and release retrospective, sprint review, and sprint planning ceremonies

• Supported existing deployments of FIS Risk and Performance solutions designed for managing interest rate risk, liquidity analysis, and other balance sheet risk management techniques
• Delivered solutions to existing clients, ranging from advanced financial modeling topics to technical troubleshooting
• Ensured product quality of new software version through rigorous testing of the cash flow calculation engine and user interface