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Hi, I'm Zack West

I'm a designer & developer with 8+ years experience developing small and medium-scale applications with a strong focus on design patterns, concurrency, and object-oriented design practices. I enjoy working on projects that involve web-scraping, large-scale systems design, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and trading algorithms. I've spent most of my time working with Python, Django, and web languages like HTML/CSS but am comfortable with Java, C#, and JavaScript.

Education & Experience

Work Experience

Full Stack Developer

Novomotus, Inc. / 2016 - Present

Small marketing agency with a focus on media, content, data, and application development.


Web Developer

Crowd Funded Cures / 2021 - Present

Building a new financial platform for funding RCTs to develop off-patent therapies.


Technical Writer + Designer

VitaDAO / 2021 - Present

Community-governed BioTech investment fund focused on advancing longevity research.


Senior 3D Artist

West Design Group, LLC / 2011 - 2016

Independent design agency focused on furniture, interior design, and home goods.

Education

BS Computer Science

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

2018-2023


BS Graphic Communication

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

2005-2010

Development Experience

Languages Used

Python90%

HTML + CSS/SCSS80%

JavaScript 65%

Java 35%

C# 25%

Bash 20%

Rust 15%

Tools & Methods

Web-Scraping 85%

Django + ORM75%

Reinforcement Learning 65%

Statistical Analysis 60%

DevOps 55%

Quantitative Trading 50%

Natural Language Processing 45%

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Personal Projects

Vitaminer

Vitaminer is a Django-based application that allows users to search multiple merchants for supplements, returning a single results page, filtered by a user-customizable list of preferred brands.

Tech Used: Django, Boostrap, AWS S3 + Secrets Manager, BeautifulSoup, Heroku App Platform, CSS/HTML/JS, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Akademy

Akademy is a Python-based framework for training reinforcement learning algorithms to trade in financial assets and is available for easy installation via the PyPI.org repository.

Tech Used: Python, PyTorch, Pandas, CUDA, and Gymnasium

αlpharithms

αlpharithms is a WordPress-based web application developed to share guides, tutorials, and industry news related to software development & engineering.

Tech Used: WordPress, Boostrap, PHP, HTML/SCSS/JS, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Grammarly

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