About
Russian major. Finance. Self-taught engineer. Solutions Architect.
I’m Zach Maddigan. I didn’t follow a plan into tech. I figured it out along the way, and I built this to give you the playbook I never had.
The path
- CollegeMajored in Russian
Planned on a government career. Life had other ideas.
- First jobFinance at Vanguard
Learned how businesses think about money, and taught myself to code on the side.
- 8 yearsTechnical implementation consultant
Delivered projects across many languages, technologies and industries.
- 5 years · nowSolutions Architect in technical pre-sales
Working with large enterprises on data and AI, and interviewing SE candidates.
How I coach: just figure it out, with a plan
Your background is an asset
Teaching, sales, finance, support: every path has skills SE teams want. We find yours and say it clearly.
Practice beats theory
You’ll run real demos and real interview rounds before the ones that count.
Roadblocks are information
A rejection or a stalled search tells us what to fix next. We adjust and keep moving.
Technical toolkit
PythonSQLApache SparkData & AI platforms