Porter Zach

iA | Full-time, May 2025 - Present

· Helped lead an API and UI overhaul for internal Config and Label editor tools, improving response times by 80% and enabling internal teams to deliver customer updates 2+ hours faster, reducing support delays and accelerating pharmacy automation workflows.

· Developed and maintained full-stack cloud features across Azure Function Apps, Cosmos DB, and Entra (B2C), collaborating with QA and Product to modernize legacy services, expand test coverage by more than 50%, and deliver more reliable, scalable APIs, UIs, and automation workflows.

· Improved platform reliability and engineering quality by reducing latency, eliminating bugs, writing CI/CD and automation scripts, and championing code reviews, documentation, and clean design patterns while helping lead development of a key internal Config Editor tool and streamlining team development processes.

Georgia Tech Research | Contract, Jan 2025 - May 2025

· Contributed to GTSAM (robotics SLAM library) codebase, improving usability for developers.

· Authored and refined technical documentation to enhance clarity and accessibility for new users.

· Developed an LLM-based automated documentation generation pipeline using the OpenAI API.

Cox Communications | Internship, May 2024 - Aug 2024

· Designed, developed, and trained an upgrade propensity machine learning model with a long-term value of more than $1 million over 5 years.

· Wrote performant queries for databases with over 4 billion rows and 1500 columns.

· Conducted analysis on Internet plan purchase data, identifying high-value customer trends and designating special groups to receive targeted campaigns.

Polytechnique Montreal | Internship, May 2023 - Aug 2023

· Developed large-scale robotic swarming software at MIST Lab for aerospace and defense purposes.

· Designed application to automate distribution of tasks between designated worker robots, reducing process startup time from 30 minutes to 0.

· This internship was sponsored by Fulbright Canada and Canada's Mitacs Globalink program.