Software engineer
Zach
I build CBSSports.com at Skydance. Before that, one login for its sports and news brands and the tools that keep live game data right.
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 CBS sports and news brands — software that has to work while the game is on.
May 2023 – Present
Skydance
Full-Stack Software Engineer · formerly Skydance Global
Unified auth across CBS Sports, CBS News, SportsLine, and more — 14.8M login requests in 30 days at 99.9% success. Now moving CBSSports.com onto a new design system, starting with Fantasy Football pages that draw 30M views a month.
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 work
At Skydance
30 → 5
Minutes to fix bad live game data
CBS Sports Data & Delivery · 2023
Live sports data tools
Internal tools that keep event and player data accurate while games are on. After a live data incident, I added on-the-fly corrections; batch fixes across 20+ games now take 3–5 minutes.
- React
- Typescript
- AWS CDK
04About
A developer who cares about the bigger picture
Mechanical engineering, then industrial IoT, then Skydance. I like software that has to work while the game is on.
Outside of work: pickleball, games, and new music.
At Skydance 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