Zach Olivare

• Architected and built an embedded Windows IoT Core UWP application for Johnson Controls' first ever smart residential thermostat, GLAS
• As the security champion for GLAS, I worked with security consultants and 3rd party pen testers to meet corporate security requirements
• Contributed to CCT, the Controller Configuration Tool, an application used by installers all over the world to flash and set up new and existing HVAC controllers
• Contributed to what would become the largest scale automated testing framework ever created at the company, encompassing an entire suite of applications

• Architected and built a content-focused Gatsby React application (digital magazines)
• Created a library of reusable React components
• Developed the front end of a nurse management system that allowed coordinators to search for and manipulate nurse records through a variety of user friendly mechanisms, including a custom Google Maps integration

• Architected and co-built a company-wide design system in vanilla JS, React, and Angular
• Most of the code was written in vanilla JS to maximize code-reuse, and relatively lightweight wrappers were created for React and Angular to maximize adoption
• Created and maintained complex monorepo build systems
• Met with engineering leaders throughout the company to convey the importance and benefits of the design system

• I lead the development of the Bright Cellars design system, a library of easy to use, flexible, themeable React components capable of being used across products
• Got team and leadership buy in on a re-write of the customer facing site from heavily customized WordPress to Next.js
• Collected information on user behavior with Google Analytics & Mixpanel
• Executed A/B tests to enable data-driven design
• Worked closely with the UX team to collaborate on difficult problems
• Wrote meaningful, robust automated tests

• Created an Azure Static Web App for sharing PowerBI reports and an Azure Functions backend with a Gremlin Cosmos Graph DB
• Created Business Ops, an Electron Windows application and installer to manage extensions for PowerBI desktop

• Architected and lead the development of a $4M revenue product using Next.js, React, TypeScript, React Query, Tailwind CSS, Node, Koa, MongoDB Atlas
• Implemented the UX design system as a shared JS library. Also created its docs website (Storybook) and gave company-wide presentations to increase adoption
• Created and thoroughly documented a shared utility library that removed thousands of lines of duplicated code across 10+ projects
• Authored a custom framework to allow for the creation of reusable email templates in React and MJML
• Mentored junior & mid-level developers

Creator of:

• Unorepo - A CLI for monorepo management
• Jest-tsd - An extension to the Jest testing framework to allow direct testing of TypeScript type definitions
• gremlin-cosmos - A wrapper for the JavaScript implementation of gremlin to make interacting with the Gremlin API of a Cosmos DB less painful.

Contributor to:

• Yup - Schema validation library
• Vercel's Next.js - React Framework
• Google's Material Design components
• Microsoft's C# Azure IoT SDK
• Chromecast sender app (Google)