Zaza Soriano

Angel Squad Member @ Hustle Fund

About

At my core, I am a builder. I specialize in taking complex product ideas and transforming them into robust, scalable software platforms from scratch.As a Lead Software Engineer, I focus on backend architecture, distributed systems, and rapid MVP development, primarily leveraging Python to build high-performance engines. I love technical variety; my favorite engineering challenges involve moving across different domains, breaking down complex requirements, and standing up clean production systems with high autonomy. That same drive carries over to my entrepreneurial side, where I love exploring new venture ideas, building independent products, and launching early-stage software concepts.I am also deeply interested in the evolution of agentic coding platforms, using AI tools as a deliberate developer force multiplier to accelerate my productivity while maintaining strict engineering standards for everything I ship. I believe the best engineering cultures are collaborative, down to earth, and driven by interesting problem sets, all while respecting a sustainable, high impact pace of work.When I am not behind the keyboard, my passion for building shifts over to massive, complex LEGO sets. The rest of my time is happily managed by my personal zoo at home, a crew of dogs and cats that make sure my remote office stays lively.Let us connect if you want to talk shop about Python architecture, building distributed systems from scratch, or the future of agentic development tools.

Country

United States

City

Millersville

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Business Ownership, Project Management, Hardware, Parallel Programming, Computer Architecture, Software Design, Linux Kernel, Kernel, Active Directory, Systems Engineering, Agile Methodologies, NoSQL, Remote Work, Flutter, Bash, Jenkins, Internet of Things (IoT), Interpersonal Skills, Debugging, Computer Science

Experience

Angel Squad Member

Hustle Fund

2026-5 - Present · 5 mos

Lead Software Engineer

Two Six Technologies

2023-8 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Leading the effort to bring engineering standards to the group with targeted documentation and template projects to minimize startup time on projects and maximize efficiency. Leading the development effort for a small dev team on a much larger project. Directly working with the customer, mathematicians, and other performers to meet the program deliverables (Rust, CI/CD, Python) Led a small integration dev team on a project to make the reverse engineering process more efficient. Created a plugin system that other performers could easily use with minimal overhead. (Python, FastAPI, CI/CD) Key developer in creating a proof of concept for a secure router project. The developed traffic generator went on to be used in the now fully funded, deployed system. (Python)

Founder

ZaaWink Labs

2023-3 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Maryland, United States

We help startups create their MVP from the ground up. We have successfully delivered a MVP in the tele-health market and are currently working on a MVP in the real estate market.

Senior Software Engineer

Butterfly Network, Inc.

2022-6 - 2023-7 · 1 yr 2 mos

Full stack developer on the cloud team for the Butterfly ultrasound probe (React, Typescript, GraphQL, Python, Flask, NodeJS, GHA, Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS)

Interim CTO

TeleSMART Health

2022-5 - 2023-3 · 11 mos

Successfully led a small team to deliver TeleSMARTs first MVP, a physical telehealth kit where doctors can get live sensor data during the visit (such as Blood pressure, glucose, etc) (Project management, design, Flask, React Native, React, Firebase, Twilio, CI/CD)

Systers Keeper

Systers

2018-10 - 2022-12 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Leader of one of the largest communities for women in tech.

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

ZaaWink

2020-8 - 2022-6 · 1 yr 11 mos

Founder and lead developer on a platform that automates illness monitoring for businesses

Senior Software Engineer

EMBEDDED FLIGHT SYSTEMS INC (EFSI)

2020-6 - 2022-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Maryland, United States

Sub-Contractor for NASA Lead researcher/developer on federated authentication system for the Earth Sciences NETOPS group (Docker, Minikube, Terraform, AWS, EC2, Cloudformation, Tomcat, Java, Python, ForgeRock) Developed a custom javascript front-end for Splunk Dashboard allowing the generation of User-Defined reporting inputs (Javascript, Splunk)