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.
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