ZachKrasner

Engineering leader. Builder of platforms. Reader of sci-fi.

Software engineer and technical leader with 10 years of experience architecting data platforms and backend systems. Built and scaled engineering teams, modernized legacy infrastructure, and shipped products 0 to 1 that drive measurable business outcomes. Deep expertise in Python, SQL, GCP, and data pipeline design. Driven by curiosity and a bias for ownership, most at home in environments where engineering and product strategy intersect.

Boston, MA

Experience

Grassroots Analytics

Washington, DC

Data analytics platform for political campaigns and nonprofits

Jan 2021 — Present

Grew engineering team from 0 to 12 and drove company revenue from $5M to $30M+ ARR by removing the technical bottlenecks constraining sales and delivery capacity.
Architected and led development of a full-stack donor data platform spanning multiple systems and 40M+ donor profiles:
MooseheadInternal analyst querying platform reducing data retrieval from 15+ minutes to under 30 seconds, with improved security, repeatability, and result quality.
AlgoProcesses hundreds of millions of donation records applying regression analysis to generate hundreds of unique datapoints and categorizations per donor profile.
Click CollectiveIngests and preprocesses billions of email exhaust events across hundreds of clients to predict future donor interactions.
ApicalSaaS platform unifying fragmented campaign and nonprofit data toolsets and overlaying proprietary analytics.
Acquired and integrated AI SaaS platform and team members into our engineering workflows.
QuillerAI SaaS platform enabling mission-driven organizations to responsibly create high-impact content. Acquired in late 2025.
Established a culture of engineering excellence by implementing CI/CD pipelines, rolling out AI-assisted development tooling across engineers and analysts, and achieving SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Bridgewater Associates

New York, NY

World's largest hedge fund · $150B+ AUM during my tenure

Sep 2016 — Aug 2022

Partnered with quantitative analysts to implement 10-year tactical and long-term assumption sets into the portfolio construction platform, translating complex Excel-based financial models into production Scala code.
Led extraction of a monolithic permission system into a unified Kafka/Flink microservice, consolidating access control across multiple related client-facing platforms.
Built and maintained a real-time portfolio construction platform used by client managers globally, instrumental in securing billions in AUM from institutional investors including endowments, pensions, and sovereign wealth funds.

Epic Systems

Madison, WI

Largest electronic health records platform nationwide

May 2015 — Aug 2015

Built a thin-client visualization tool for tracking annual flu rates and variants across a user's hospital and surrounding facilities, implementing custom SVG charts from scratch.

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Aug 2012 — May 2016

B.S. in Engineering · Computer and Information Sciences

Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity · Treasurer
Kappa Sigma Fraternity · Philanthropy Chair
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Engineers Without Borders

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

PythonDjangoFastAPISQLScalaJavaScriptTypeScriptNext.jsReactVue

Infrastructure & Cloud

GCPAWSAirflowTerraformJenkinsDocker

Data & Databases

PostgreSQLBigQueryETLData Pipelines

Leadership

Team BuildingTechnical Strategy0-to-1 Engineering

Beyond the Code

Fatherhood

Navigating the chaos and joy of first-time parenthood with my son Graham, born in 2025.

Travel

Road tripped around the US for a year, seeing 36 states and 16 national parks.

Hiking

Grew up in the mountains of Vermont and always looking for new mountains to climb.

Reading

Lifelong sci-fi and fantasy reader. Dune, Foundation, Hyperion, Red Rising, The Cosmere, Dungeon Crawler Carl.