Zach Stein

Software Developer, Engineering Leader

Specializing in e-commerce and ERP.

Skills

PHP, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Netsuite, Magento (Adobe Commerce) 1 and 2, Laravel, Angular, git, AWS

Experience

RuffleButts

Director of IT March 2024-Present

• Lead a team of 5 including ERP, IT, and Ecommerce development.
• Replatformed search from searchspring to Adobe Livesearch, improving reliability, and saving the company 40k/year
• Lead the implementation of SPS commerce for EDI for several bigbox stores
• Assisted in the implementation of an automated price management tool for netsuite
• Lead a site design overhaul in 2025 involving 2 internal developers, and an offshore development agency

Engineering Manager July 2022 - March 2024

• Lead a team of 2 inhouse developers, and additional outsourced agency developers
• Brought RuffleButts from infrequent releases to bi-weekly and weekly releases
• Implemented code reviews, and automated code quality checks
• Replatformed hosting to AWS via JetRails, greatly improving site stability, speed, and lowering monthly hosting costs
• Implemented product personalization including rich previews in Magento 2
• Implemented observability and alerting via New Relic
• Improved time to first byte by 80%

Holt’s Cigar Company

Engineering Manager March 2021 - July 2022

• Lead a team of 6 developers
• Oversaw the successful launch and development of Holt’s, Ashton Distributors, and Ashton cigar bar Magento and Drupal sites, and the Ashton Apparel Shopify site.
• Member of the ecommerce steering committee: Participated in strategic decision making for Holts.com on SEO, digital marketing, and feature development timelines.
• Acted as a liaison between management, other stakeholders, and development team.
• Provided architectural guidance for Magento 1 and Magento 2 projects
• Built bi-directional catalog, inventory, customer, and order integration between Magento 2 and Dynamics AX.
• Built a social cigar rating application using Angular, Bootstrap, and Laravel.

Lead Developer March 2015 - March 2021

• Implemented agile development methodologies
• Provided code reviews, and architectural guidance
• Provided mentorship and career development to more junior team members
• Replatformed hosting from Rackspace physical servers to AWS with autoscaling, saving the company 40k/year

Senior Developer July 2013 - March 2015

• Replatformed Holts.com to Magento
• Built an integration for Dynamics AX and Magento 1
• Built an asynchronous queuing system for Magento 1 to support automated updates.
• Built an automated content update system for Magento 1

Interactive Worldwide

Senior Developer January 2012 - July 2013

• Lead a team of 3 developers working to implement an ecommerce marketplace using JEE and MySQL.
• Conducted code reviews.
• Implemented agile development processes.
• Introduced JIRA issue tracking, git, and Jenkins continuous integration.
• Developed an Android application to control a brake press via a IOIO breakout board an Android ADK.
• Built software for interactive retail fixtures.

Mimeya Technology

Software Engineer June 2009 - December 2012

• Replatormed payment processing on a healthcare claims processing application using JEE/EJB
• Built an automated appointment reminder system using Twilio, JEE, and MySQL
• Worked on a team that built GammaBasics GrayCAD, a radiation shielding design destop application using Java
• Web application development using PHP and Code Igniter

Franklin and Marshall College

Helpdesk Manager 2006-2008

• Built a time tracking/timeclock application that automated timesheet generation using PHP and PostgreSQL

  Network and systems intern 2005

• Audited switch port connections, cleaned equipment, and audited DNS records

  Helpdesk 2004 - 2005

Education

La Salle University

Philadelphia, PA

MS CIS, graduated with departmental honors. 2020

Franklin and Marshall College

Lancaster, PA

BA Geology, Minor: computer science

Misc

Technical editor on The Art of Modern PHP 8 from Packt press.