Electrical and computer engineer with expertise in LAMP stack programming for web development applications. Experience designing and building highly scalable infrastructure.

Software Engineer @ From April 2015 to Present (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Writing highly scaleable backend software. From February 2012 to April 2015 (3 years 3 months) Software Engineer @ Efficiently worked in a team to expand the Zynga Toolbar to 6M DAU, building the front end, back end, and troubleshooting operations. Only service that directly generated revenue for the Platform team. Developed the entire backend for Rewardville Points with a peak DAU of 2M, the first user facing feature launched as part of Zynga.com. Collaborated with partner teams to ensure smooth and successful launch with no production issues. Designed and implemented the ZAPI Social Graph, a highly reliable system which manages the friend graph and invite flow for Zynga.com. Complex architecture written in PHP with membase as the primary datastore, along with memqueues and consumers to support asynchronous writes for greater scalability. Reliably debugged and fixed various operational issues for all projects, including monitoring and addressing alerts. From January 2010 to February 2012 (2 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVolunteer Citizen Teacher @ • Volunteered by teaching classes on engineering and web design at a local middle school • Created weekly lesson plans with the goal of getting students excited to learn about science and technology • Helped organize an on site event at the Texas Instruments campus to give a real life audience for student projects From January 2008 to December 2009 (2 years) Houston, Texas AreaDesign Engineer / V.P. of Business Development @ • Design and build custom electronics From March 2009 to October 2009 (8 months) Applications Engineer @ • Directly supported customers using ARM-based microcontrollers during development, guaranteeing customers met their delivery dates. • Validated microcontrollers on the bench by creating and executing plans and test cases in C/C++ and assembly, ensuring design bugs are detected before parts are shipped to customers. • Defined design specifications for new features based on customer feedback, targeted towards gaining market share and increasing revenue. • Coordinated with cross-functional teams from early design stages through production, driving competitive microcontrollers to market on time. • Presented at a technical conference on automotive graphics, giving visibility to my department. • Tested and modified a new stepper motor control algorithm for cluster applications, creating an edge over the competition. From February 2007 to January 2009 (2 years) Houston, Texas AreaResearch Programmer @ • Wrote programs for Natural Language Processing applications, creating a means to analyze text similarities in blogs. • Utilized Perl and bash scripting extensively in a UNIX environment. From February 2006 to December 2006 (11 months) Design Engineer Intern @ • Designed, developed, and implemented hardware and software for a next generation endoscopic camera, increasing revenue. • Designed a power supply and software for a scope holder control board, allowing greater functionality and mobility. • Applied for a patent on a scope recognition system, currently pending. From 2005 to 2005 (less than a year) Software Engineering Intern @ • Planned and created tools for programmers using Visual Basic, VBScript and JavaScript, saving time and increasing productivity. • Developed automation software for tasks previously done manually, reducing downtime. From 2004 to 2004 (less than a year)

Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Engineering @ University of Michigan From 2005 to 2007 Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering @ University of Washington From 2001 to 2005 Konstantin Zak is skilled in: PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached, Linux, Nginx, EC2, Web Development, Scalable Web Applications, Apache, Git, Internet, Internet Entrepreneur, Internet Explorer, Internet Services