Zach Broad

Software Engineer · Indialantic, FL

Full-stack engineer shipping cloud platforms end-to-end. Currently a Software Engineer at MPLN. Previously scaled FrenchieWiki.com to 1.3M annual users and $100K+ ARR as founding engineer. CKAD and Terraform Associate certified.

💼 Work Experience

Software Engineer @ Molecular Pathology Laboratory Network, Inc.

May 2024 – Present | Healthcare Startup

TypeScript C# LangChain Elasticsearch Kafka Debezium Azure Terraform Kubernetes

Founding Engineer @ Broad Publications LLC

Jan 2019 – May 2024 | FrenchieWiki.com · 1.3M Users/yr · $100K+ ARR

Architected and operated a production content platform serving 1.3M annual users across 5+ years — sole engineer owning infra, performance, reliability, and build pipeline.
Designed the CDN + static-site architecture (Gatsby on Cloudflare) sustaining 95+ PageSpeed across every page at scale, with CI/CD for automated content deployment.
Built a Python/pandas keyword-research and content pipeline from zero — drove 300% YoY organic growth and earned top 1% of U.S. publishers by traffic (Mediavine).
Owned monetization, SEO, and analytics alongside engineering to scale the business to six-figure ARR — end-to-end product, not just code.

Gatsby Cloudflare Python pandas SEO

🛠 Skills

Cloud & DevOps

Kubernetes Azure AWS Docker Terraform Helm Dapr Azure Service Bus Linux GitHub Actions Azure DevOps NGINX Keycloak Sentry Prometheus OpenTelemetry

Languages

Python TypeScript Go C# SQL Node.js Bash HTML CSS/SCSS

Frameworks

React Next.js Django FastAPI Rails Hono Vue.js React Native Vitest

Data

PostgreSQL SQL Server Elasticsearch Redis Kafka Debezium pandas GraphQL REST

AI / LLM

LangChain LangGraph Anthropic API OpenAI API

🚀 Featured Projects

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NitroHook

Self-hosted webhook gateway in Go — HTTP, Slack, SMTP, Twilio; sandboxed JS transforms; Kubernetes-deployed with Prometheus observability.

Case Study 🌐 Live GitHub

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FrenchieWiki

Built and monetized a niche content site from zero

$100K+

Annual Revenue

1.3M+

Annual Users

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CHIP-8 Emulator

Low-level systems emulator built in C with SDL2

C SDL2 Systems

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Java IRC Server

RFC 1459/2812-compliant chat server with multi-threading

Java Sockets Network