Zane Hitchcox

Principal Software Engineer at HEP, Inc
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Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, US
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  • German Limited working proficiency
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency

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Andrew Wolfe

Zane is incredibly detailed and easy to work with. He's great at what he does and is prompt too, I'd recommend his services to any of my clients.

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Experience

    • United States
    • Specialty Trade Contractors
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Principal Software Engineer
      • Feb 2023 - Present

      ● Used emerging AI technologies to evaluate caller transcripts for sales rep training purposes ● Used D3/React Spring/other visualization tools to give reps feedback in a fun intuitive way ● Built site on Remix (relatively new React meta-framework similar to Next.js) ● Used emerging AI technologies to evaluate caller transcripts for sales rep training purposes ● Used D3/React Spring/other visualization tools to give reps feedback in a fun intuitive way ● Built site on Remix (relatively new React meta-framework similar to Next.js)

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • May 2008 - Present

      ● Maintainer of Etcher (24.9k stars on Github), flashing millions of devices per month cross-platform for Windows, MacOS, and Linux ● happy eyeballs - standards driven method of redundant connection attempts using various protocols, eventually implemented in NodeJS core ● Cruster - Allows you to easily deploy kubernetes clusters onto raspberry pis on your home network, featured on multiple Kubernetes blogs ● Scriptz - Create and manage scripts, tokens, etc. and run them from the command line cross platform ● node-ext2fs - mount ext{2,3,4} file partitions and edit file system in user space. You can create files, symlinks, hard links, directories, anything you can do on a mounted file system. This works cross platform and uses WebAssembly under the hood to talk to the e2fsprogs back end ● drivelist - Uses Native Node Module Addon written in C++, Objective-C, and TypeScript to list available block devices, determine if they are system devices, and other meta data about the drives. Works cross platform (MacOS, Linux, Windows) ● node-parted - GNU partition editor ported to TypeScript from GNU Parted using WebAssembly for cross-platform (MacOS, Linux, Windows) ● Node-resize2fs (soon to be open sourced) - resize ext partitions cross-platform ● Above are popular projects I was/am maintainer of, but I’ve contributed to many open source projects and also created many more on my own, see my GitHub Show less

    • Israel
    • Biotechnology Research
    • Lead Software Engineer
      • Oct 2020 - Feb 2023

      Started as a backend engineer focused on security ● Was maintainer of Etcher and led team of 4 to maintain Etcher which flashed millions of devices per month and was Balena’s primary advertising tool ● Implemented standards-based tools to solve technical challenges, like happy-eyeballs to solve problems with hundreds of thousands of devices ● Provided support for customer devices in field for linux kernel, docker engine, and networking problems ● Etcher project has been put into maintenance mode due to financial trouble at the company and entire team was laid off Show less

    • Ireland
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Full Stack Engineer - Subject Matter Expert Level III
      • May 2015 - May 2019

      ● Worked with variety of corporations and government agencies to modernize technologies on front and back end ● Was technical lead on several projects involving myriad applications ● Created data/metric analysis/monitoring ● modernizing front ends using React, Redux, Typescript ● Modernized back end of websites with TypeScript, NodeJS, Go, Webpack, etc. ● Worked with variety of corporations and government agencies to modernize technologies on front and back end ● Was technical lead on several projects involving myriad applications ● Created data/metric analysis/monitoring ● modernizing front ends using React, Redux, Typescript ● Modernized back end of websites with TypeScript, NodeJS, Go, Webpack, etc.

    • Hungary
    • Construction
    • Software Engineer
      • May 2008 - May 2015

      ● Where I got my start as an engineer ● Created companies website and was eventually promoted to maintain the entire company’s (small business) information management and online marketing systems with a team of 2 people ● Automated many tasks that were being performed manually ● Where I got my start as an engineer ● Created companies website and was eventually promoted to maintain the entire company’s (small business) information management and online marketing systems with a team of 2 people ● Automated many tasks that were being performed manually

Education

  • University of Tennessee-Knoxville - College of Business Administration
    Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting
    2013 - 2015

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