About Me
- 👋 Hi, I’m Zack Novak!
- I’m currently working on the data engineering team at CardinalCommerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of Visa Inc.
- 🔭 In the past, I worked as the sole data engineer at Second Front Systems, a public benefit, venture-backed software company in the national defense space as well as at Progressive Insurance where I worked on their Machine Learning team that developed a ML model frameworked used throughout the organization.
- 👀 I’m interested in all things DevOps and Data Engineering! I’m actively looking to learn more about Istio, Advanced Python, Go and Kubernetes.
- This was last updated on Nov. 17 2023.
Programming Skills
Day-to-day Languages
Databases I have experience in
Education
I graduated with my Bachelors in Information Systems Management at the University of Akron in December 2018, summa cum laude and was selected as 2018-2019’s “Outstanding Information Systems Management Undergraduate Graduate”.
Please check my resume available on the main page for my latest skills / experience.
Certifications
I currently only have my Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 2.4 with Scala 2.11 certification located here.
Hobbies
In my spare time, I like to read, work on personal projects like this website, cook with but primarily for my wife, work/ride on my motorcycle, and generally have a good time.