Zane Hitchcox
Principal Software Engineer at HEP, Inc- Claim this Profile
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German Limited working proficiency
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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.
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.
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.
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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HEP, Inc
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United States
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Specialty Trade Contractors
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Software Engineer
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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)
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Open Source
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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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
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balena
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Israel
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Biotechnology Research
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Lead Software Engineer
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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
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Accenture
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Ireland
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Full Stack Engineer - Subject Matter Expert Level III
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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.
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HEP
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Hungary
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Construction
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Software Engineer
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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
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Education
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University of Tennessee-Knoxville - College of Business Administration
Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting