I’m Zach Toney. I build software that has to work inside real operations: messy data, legacy systems, and stakeholders who don’t speak code.
Twelve-plus years of production engineering: a global team building construction project-management software with heavy Gantt scheduling at Accurise; automated New York State court filings at InfoTrack under genuine compliance constraints; a 14,000-domain portfolio at My Name Inc.; and a founding role on an ad-arbitrage initiative at Spigot that cleared $2MM a year in gross profit. Earlier, reviving fifty-plus client sites from malware and migrating them somewhere safer.
Most of my recent work is agentic systems deployed directly inside customer operations. Not prototypes, but systems that survive contact with production data. The patterns that make that work are unglamorous: well-specified contracts, deterministic guardrails, human-owned architecture, and tight verification loops on anything a model produces.
Why catering and med spas
Because that is where this skill set is worth the most. Both industries run on capable vertical software that was never designed to talk to anything else, and both have owners who feel the cost of that every single week. I have built the same class of integration enough times in these two verticals to get there faster and cheaper than someone starting cold, which is the entire argument for hiring a specialist.
Stack
Python, TypeScript and PHP/Laravel in production; Go and Ruby well within reach. Next.js, .NET Core and Framework, Java. n8n for orchestration. AWS and Azure. WordPress when it is genuinely the right tool, which is more often than engineers like to admit.
Ball State University, B.S. Computer Science. Based in Fort Lauderdale, working nationwide.