I'm Zech.
I build software.

Twenty years of it. Most of it built in the margins of an ordinary day, the one playing out around you.

For nine years, the days belonged to something else.

I led a team at a grocery store in upstate New York: scheduling, logistics, and holding it together when three things broke at once. It taught me more about systems than any classroom did, and I've got the CS degree to compare it against.

Everything I built, I built after hours.

More than 800 daily challenges, plus the bots and the frameworks. I wrote them one weekday at a time, in the hours after my shift, when the floor was finally someone else's problem. Before anyone was watching.

Not anymore.

The commute stops. The store closes behind me. The hours I used to steal at night are the whole day now.

A community that runs on what I built.

Smarter Dev is where I do it: I write the daily challenges, run the bots, keep the lights on. More than 13,000 developers now, and growing. It isn't loud. It's people getting unstuck.

Judgment, not keystrokes.

Frameworks like Bevy, rebuilt a dozen times until they were right. And lately, AI tools that handle the dull, repetitive work the way I once ran a floor, so what's left for you is the judgment.

Come find me.

It's the whole job now: building, and writing it down on the blog as I go. And I'm in Smarter Dev every day, with thirteen thousand other developers. If you want to talk shop, that's where I am.