Porter Zach

iA | Full-time, May 2025 - Present

· Developed, maintained, and deployed core Azure infrastructure, web UI applications, data pipelines, and shared services used by internal teams and production customers.

· Migrated Azure resources from manual management to Terraform, reducing configuration drift and improving fail-safety through version-controlled infrastructure.

· Engineered Azure DevOps pipelines for automated building, unit testing, and deployment, significantly reducing time to deploy and lowering change failure rates.

· Designed and implemented infrastructure-level alerts and monitoring modules within Terraform to improve incident response times and system clarity.

· Implemented Config & Label editor tools, facilitating an 80% reduction in customer service response time.

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.