Lead UI Developer
Open to remoteZach Lamb
I lead a UI engineering team, run its agile process, and still ship full-stack features.
Leading frontend for RangeGPT, an AI platform that simulates real cyberattacks on live hardware.
I'm the Lead UI Developer at Circadence. Day to day, that means leading the UI team, running our agile process, and helping product decide what we build next. I still write code too, taking new features from the React front end through to the API.
When I'm not at my desk, I'm teaching yoga, hiking Colorado's trails, or trying to settle the Oreo debate once and for all.
Team Leadership
I lead the UI team at Circadence: setting frontend direction, reviewing code, and clearing blockers so engineers can ship. I've also designed hiring processes that were adopted company-wide.
Agile Delivery
Certified ScrumMaster running the sprint cadence, retros, and backlog. At Circadence I turned 400+ loose backlog items into ten structured projects and set up the team's first reliable sprint rhythm.
Product & Roadmap
I work alongside product from discovery through delivery and bring the engineering view into roadmap decisions. I've built dual roadmaps that keep software and hardware teams pointed at the same deliverable.
Full-Stack Features
I still build. New features go from React and TypeScript on the front end through to the services behind them, including LLM-powered tools, and I bring AI tooling like Claude Code and MCP into the team's daily workflow.
Lead UI Developer
Circadence
Sep 2025Present
- Lead the UI engineering team behind RangeGPT, an AI platform that simulates real cyberattacks on live hardware, setting frontend direction and reviewing the team's work
- Run the agile process: consolidated 409 backlog items into 10 structured Linear projects and established the first reliable sprint cadence and retros
- Work with product on strategy and roadmap, and act as primary technical counterpart for the NTT Data Japan enterprise partnership across two software teams and a hardware team
- Build full-stack features in React and TypeScript, including LLM-powered tools that speed up threat analysis and incident response for cybersecurity professionals
- Introduced AI-augmented engineering practices: Claude Code in grooming, MCP tooling for roadmaps, shared agent configs across the team
Sr. React Developer
Starbucks
Feb 2024Sep 2025
- Worked across teams to build a new web application for store managers, and developed Agile processes for the team
- Shipped message reply and edit features with TypeScript, React, and GraphQL
- Upgraded UI libraries, raising the Lighthouse performance score from 65 to 90
Senior Software Engineer
StellarFi
May 2023Jan 2024
- Pair-programmed an API and UI table with my manager to show users how their monthly membership payments were being reported to credit bureaus
- Created a new design system for a brand refresh that added roughly 100 new users per week
- Built an E2E testing framework that uncovered two major regression bugs in the production account-creation flow
- Initiated and facilitated bi-weekly retrospectives for the engineering team, leading to a documentation-focused sprint and broader process improvements
Software Engineer
Sana Benefits
Oct 2022Feb 2023
- Acted as Agile Coach teaching Scrum practices to the team
- Built healthcare plan selection feature for members
- Created standardized testing process improving code reliability
My time at Sana Benefits and StellarFi both ended in company-wide layoffs.
What managers and teammates have said about working with me.
If you are considering hiring, promoting, or pulling Zach onto a new project, do it! You will not regret it! Not only is Zach an outstanding developer, teammate, and coach, but he stays grounded and communicates clearly and constructively during challenging situations. While working with him on the Promotions Pod at Purple we faced heavy workloads and tight deadlines back-to-back. Zach was consistently fulfilling his responsibilities, supporting his teammates across the board.
Zach is one of the most thorough and communicative developers I've worked with. He's able to call out when things are in jeopardy and is very invested in the culture of the company. He's a great developer who is always willing to dig in and do the research as well as support his team. He has a background in project management and that comes through with how thorough he is in his documentation and how organized he is when he tackles projects.
Zach and I worked together on the Promotions pod at Purple. During this time, Zach was a Developer on the team. I greatly appreciated Zach's ability to vocalize and lead communication for the development team. This unique skill allowed us to mitigate and tackle perceived risk and issues early on. As a Project Manager, I appreciated the level of importance Zach placed on process and culture, and I was thankful for Zach's help in driving both forward with the team.
If you are considering hiring, promoting, or pulling Zach onto a new project, do it! You will not regret it! Not only is Zach an outstanding developer, teammate, and coach, but he stays grounded and communicates clearly and constructively during challenging situations. While working with him on the Promotions Pod at Purple we faced heavy workloads and tight deadlines back-to-back. Zach was consistently fulfilling his responsibilities, supporting his teammates across the board.
Zach is one of the most thorough and communicative developers I've worked with. He's able to call out when things are in jeopardy and is very invested in the culture of the company. He's a great developer who is always willing to dig in and do the research as well as support his team. He has a background in project management and that comes through with how thorough he is in his documentation and how organized he is when he tackles projects.
Zach and I worked together on the Promotions pod at Purple. During this time, Zach was a Developer on the team. I greatly appreciated Zach's ability to vocalize and lead communication for the development team. This unique skill allowed us to mitigate and tackle perceived risk and issues early on. As a Project Manager, I appreciated the level of importance Zach placed on process and culture, and I was thankful for Zach's help in driving both forward with the team.
The tools I've actually shipped with, not the ones I've just read about.
Leadership & Practices
Frontend
Backend
Tools & Infrastructure
Certifications & Training
Have a role, a project, or a question about leading frontend teams? Send a note. I usually reply within a day.