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"$schema": "https://solid-resume.vercel.app/schema.json",
"meta": {
"canonical": "https://gist.github.com/metruzanca/751361e5ba58ad06f361ebd430ae6e10",
"version": "v1.0.0",
"lastModified": "2025-03-06T14:56:49.946Z",
"theme": "actual"
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"basics": {
"name": "Sam Zanca",
"label": "Senior Software Engineer",
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": "+1 (848) 466-6653",
"url": "https://zanca.dev",
"location": {
"city": "New York",
"countryCode": "US",
"region": "New York"
},
"profiles": [
{
"network": "Twitter",
"username": "metruzanca",
"url": "https://twitter.com/metruzanca"
},
{
"network": "Linkedin",
"username": "samuele-zanca",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuele-zanca/"
},
{
"network": "Github",
"username": "metruzanca",
"url": "https://github.com/metruzanca"
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"work": [
{
"name": "Predicate.io",
"position": "Senior Engineer",
"startDate": "2025-06",
"endDate": "2025-10",
"url": "https://predicate.io",
"highlights": [
"Engineered performant GoLang APIs, consistent latency <100ms response time across critical services for a high-growth startup.",
"Reduced Docker image build time 180s -> 20s using buildkit and layer caching. Speeding up local dev and CI workflows.",
"Delivered intuitive and performant frontend experiences using React and Next.js, and could have prevented the [Cloudflare useEffect outage](https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-12-dashboard-and-api-outage/).",
"Led full-stack development of sleek frontend experiences and robust GoLang backend APIs",
"Drove productivity leveraging advanced AI tools, such as MCP, Cursor and Claude, streamlining development workflows in a fast-paced environment.",
"Architected efficient async background job processing system using Go channels and worker pools, handling 10K+ concurrent tasks with 99.9% reliability and sub-second processing times."
]
},
{
"name": "chainalysis",
"position": "Senior Engineer",
"startDate": "2024-03",
"endDate": "2025-06",
"url": "https://chainalysis.com/",
"location": "Remote",
"highlights": [
"$60M+ revenue impact – Leading development of our second largest React/Next.js app, improving maintainability and shipping velocity.",
"-50K lines of legacy code removed - Continuously reducing complexity while delivering new features and increasing reliable testing.",
"Technical Stewardship – Guiding development for teams without dedicated frontend engineers, ensuring efficient feature delivery.",
"Company-wide design system – Contributing code and shaping direction to keep it simple and maintainable.",
"Critical client issues resolved – Regularly tackling high-priority issues from top clients, improving user experience and eliminating major pain points.",
"Cross-functional Collaboration – working closely with other product/design/engineering teams",
"Best practices - Always implementing optimal data fetching and rendering optimizations for high-performance frontend applications.",
"Implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Datadog, enabling proactive issue detection and reducing mean time to resolution by 40%."
]
},
{
"name": "Bentobox",
"url": "https://getbento.com",
"position": "Software Engineer (Contract)",
"startDate": "2023-04",
"endDate": "2023-12",
"location": "New York City",
"logo": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metruzanca/metruzanca/master/icons/bentobox.png",
"highlights": [
"Built 50+ pixel-perfect UI, high-quality, responsive components from Figma designs using React.",
"Aligned specs across 5+ teams to ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration and on-time feature delivery.",
"Reduced tech debt by 30% by prioritizing maintainable code with a strong focus on simplicity, clarity, and UX.",
"Resolved critical race conditions affecting 10,000+ users, improving stability and preventing bad user experiences."
]
},
{
"name": "Brkfst.io",
"position": "FullStack Engineer",
"location": "New York, US",
"startDate": "2021-04",
"endDate": "2023-03",
"summary": "Brkfst.io creates performance-based video ads at scale, syndicated across social platforms",
"highlights": [
"Led migration to Typescript, reduced tech debt by 30% and improved response times by 30% video ad platform.",
"Designed and implemented AWS infrastructure using Terraform, established robust CI/CD pipelines, and increased deployment frequency.",
"Built comprehensive browser automation testing suite using Playwright, reduced manual QA effort by 60% and caught 90% of regressions before production deployment and QA tests.",
"Optimized PostgreSQL queries and implemented caching strategies that improved background job performance by 50%.",
"Mentored junior developers, established code review processes and technical standards that improved code quality metrics and reduced bug reports.",
"Spearheaded migration from legacy Webpack build system to modern tooling, eliminated technical debt and reduced build times by 70% while implementing automated performance monitoring.",
"Delivered critical infrastructure improvements including database optimization, API rate limiting, and error handling that increased platform uptime."
],
"url": "https://Brkfst.io",
"logo": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metruzanca/metruzanca/master/icons/brkfst.svg"
}
],
"skills": [
{
"name": "All",
"keywords": [
"JavaScript",
"Typescript",
"React",
"REST",
"CSS",
"Nodejs",
"Express",
"C#",
"gRPC",
"Postgrsql",
"MongoDB",
"Firebase",
"Linux",
"AWS",
"Docker",
"Svelte",
"Tailwind",
"solidjs",
"Gleam",
"Erlang"
]
}
]
}
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