Zach Pardee — Software Engineer

About

Senior engineer with 10+ years in software quality and test automation, now focused on full-stack product development. I've shipped systems across enterprise mortgage platforms, aerospace manufacturing, and my own products — bringing the same precision to a React Native app that I brought to a CubeSat structure.

0+ years of engineering

0 apps in production

0 CubeSat delivered

Projects

Fantasy Fighting League

A live, deployed fantasy sports platform for UFC — designed, built, and operated solo. Express/PostgreSQL API with a real-time scoring pipeline that polls ESPN during events, settles picks and odds-based virtual bets, and pushes results to head-to-head matchups, standings, and playoff brackets. React web app, React Native (Expo) companion app, Supabase auth, and betting lines synced from The Odds API — running in production on Railway and Vercel with scheduled jobs, an ops dashboard, and zero-downtime deploys.

TypeScript
React
React Native
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Supabase
Railway
Vercel

Try me out! →

Demo login (read-only): reviewer@fantasyufc.dev / ffl-demo-2026

FriendBet In development

A social betting app for friendly wagers — stake virtual credits on anything, with both-parties-agree resolution and an escrow ledger so nobody can welch. Express/PostgreSQL API and an Expo (React Native) app, building on the production patterns proven in Fantasy Fighting League.

TypeScript
React Native
Expo
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Supabase

Engineering

SUCCESS CubeSat

CU Boulder · 2015

A 6-unit CubeSat bus designed and manufactured with a multidisciplinary team through the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. I built CAD models, engineering drawings, and manufacturing documentation, and served as communications lead — delivering a baseline satellite prototype to seed future design teams.

SolidWorks / CAD
GD&T
Structural Design
Manufacturing
Team Lead

Experience

Mortgage Cadence · Accenture

Software Testing Engineer · Test Automation Specialist

2019 – 2026

Built and maintained automated testing frameworks for a cloud-based mortgage lending platform used by banks, credit unions, and lenders nationwide. Covered end-to-end loan origination workflows, GraphQL API testing, third-party integrations, and CI/CD pipelines. Cut manual regression effort by thousands of hours.

C# / .NET
TypeScript
Selenium
GraphQL
Azure DevOps
Kubernetes

TecStar Consulting

QA Engineer

2015 – 2019

QA and test automation consulting across aerospace, manufacturing, and education clients — including Ball Aerospace, Hunter Douglas, and Jefferson County Public Schools.