Software engineer
Zach
I build frontend for CBS Sports. Previously auth and live data tools at Paramount.
Frontend for live sports, built to hold up on game day.
Scroll01Experience
A track record of building impactful products
From live sports data tools to unified identity across Paramount brands — software that has to work while the game is on.
May 2023 – Present
Paramount Global
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Unified auth across CBS Sports, CBS News, SportsLine, and more — 14.8M login requests in 30 days at 99.9% success. Now building CBSSports.com frontend for tens of millions of views during live games.
Apr 2021 – May 2023
Henkel Corporation
IoT Development Engineer
Python services in Docker that pulled equipment data, normalized it, and pushed it to cloud backends for industrial IoT.
Jan 2023 – Sep 2024
LIFE CO. Church
Volunteer developer
Helped with website updates and one-off backend services around Sunday and Wednesday production.
02Featured work
Selected projects
Peadbo
Personal advisory board platform. I built the AWS backend: DynamoDB, Lambda, and API Gateway for recommendations, webhook onboarding, and resolver integrations.
2022 – 2023
Job Scraper
Watched a shortlist of companies, stored listings, and put a dashboard on top.
2023
Crypto Discord Bot
Let a Discord server connect crypto wallets and query on-chain data in-channel.
2022
04About
A developer who cares about the bigger picture
Mechanical engineering, then industrial IoT, then Paramount. I like software that has to work while the game is on.
Outside of work: pickleball, games, and new music.
At Paramount I cut live data correction time from about 30 minutes to five for CBS Sports — the kind of operational win that matters when millions are watching.
05Contact
Have a project in mind?
If you need someone who can take a product from idea through schema, API, UI, and deploy — send a note.
© 2026 Zach Melendez