Zachary Weiss

I'm a marketing major at the University of Central Florida who also ships production software. I spent summer 2026 as a software engineering intern at Forecast Fusion, learning a live legal case-management CRM from the inside: closing security holes, speeding up the database, and modernizing code that dates back to 2014. That internship ended in August and the work did not. I have merged 114 pull requests into that system and still ship to it. Before that I built BrandLens, a web app that turns any company URL into a brand guidelines PDF. These days I run marketing for UCF's Pro Bono Consulting Club, and I'm certified across Anthropic's AI platform, Microsoft Excel, and Google Ads.

Graduating May 2027 and open to internships and full-time roles in marketing or software. Please reach out.

Experience

  1. Software Engineering Intern · Forecast Fusion

    May 2026 – Aug 2026

    Internship · Remote

    Spent the summer inside a production PHP/MySQL case-management CRM for a New York traffic-ticket law firm: roughly 270,000 lines of first-party PHP, 137,853 cases, and the eleven staff who run the firm on it every working day. Worked 30 to 40 hours a week, with every change going through a peer and then a supervisor before it shipped. I have kept working on the system since the internship ended.

    • Made the slowest staff search about 15 times faster, 11.6 seconds down to 0.74, by swapping leading-wildcard scans for anchored index lookups. Contact search went from a 91,000-row full table scan to roughly 300 to 560 rows read. Both numbers re-measured on production and confirmed live by staff.
    • Closed real security holes in the legacy code: SQL injection, cross-site request forgery, and file downloads that never checked who was asking. That protected client PII and payment paths for thousands of active cases.
    • Used Claude Code to move faster on modernization and database work, and wrote a deploy runbook for every release with a verification step and a rollback plan for each change.
    • Merged 91 pull requests and 622 commits over the summer, and wrote and reviewed the work orders, runbooks, and code reviews that went with them.
    • PHP
    • MySQL
    • SQL query optimization
    • Database indexing
    • Web application security
    • bcrypt
    • Cloudflare
    • Backblaze B2
    • rclone
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Code review
    • Claude Code
    • Prompt engineering
    • Legacy system modernization

  2. Marketing Director · Pro Bono Consulting Club

    Jun 2026 – Present

    Part-time · Orlando, FL · On-site

    • Designed, built, and launched the club's website from scratch.
    • Set up the club's social presence, LinkedIn page included, and own its marketing and visual identity.
    • Make the content and graphics on LinkedIn and Instagram that introduce Orlando business owners to the club's free consulting and bring in new UCF student consultants.
    • Marketing strategy
    • Brand strategy
    • Social media marketing
    • Social media content creation
    • Lead generation
    • Marketing communications
    • Advertising
    • Web development

  3. Camp Counselor · Camp Nock-A-Mixon

    Jun 2022 – Jul 2022

    Seasonal · Kintnersville, PA

    • Looked after a cabin of campers all summer: safety, structure, and keeping the group in good spirits.
    • Ran daily activities and settled disagreements between campers calmly.
    • Conflict resolution
    • Communication
    • Teamwork

Projects

NYTrafficTicket website homepage

NYTrafficTicket CRM and website

May 2026 – Present

A decade-old legal CRM made fast and safe, on production. Still shipping.

  • Cut the slowest staff search from 11.6 s to 0.74 s by replacing leading-wildcard scans with anchored index lookups.
  • Reduced contact search from a 91,000-row full table scan to roughly 300 to 560 rows read, confirmed live on production.
  • Fixed SQL injection, CSRF, and unauthenticated file-download holes across the PHP/MySQL codebase.
  • 114 merged pull requests and 667 commits, 56 percent of everything committed to the repository, every one through peer and supervisor review.
  • Began as a summer internship and continued past it. I am now one of the two developers the firm runs the system on.
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Cloudflare
  • Backblaze B2
  • Claude Code
Live sitePrivate client work
Syllabify landing page showing a syllabus turning into calendar events

Syllabify

Sep 2026

Your whole semester on your calendar in a minute, and the file never leaves your device.

  • Every app that reads a syllabus wants an account, a copy of your file, and eventually your money. Syllabify wants none of it: no sign-up, no server, no class limit, free.
  • Drop a PDF, a Word file, a screenshot, or a photo of the page. It pulls out every deadline, exam, and weekly class time, lets you check them, and hands back one calendar file for Google, Apple, or Outlook.
  • The reading happens entirely in the browser: pdf.js for PDFs, mammoth for Word, and on-device OCR for photos, all served from the site's own origin. Turn on airplane mode and it still works.
  • Built and shipped in a week on Next.js 16 with 372 tests, an installable PWA, and Lighthouse scores of 98 on mobile and 100 on desktop.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • pdf.js
  • Tesseract OCR
  • Vitest
  • Vercel
Live siteGitHub
BrandLens web app generating a brand guide

BrandLens

Feb 2026 – Mar 2026

Small businesses deserve brand guidelines too.

  • Most small businesses have a website with a logo, colors, and fonts, but no written brand guidelines. An agency would charge thousands to make them.
  • Paste in a URL and BrandLens pulls out the brand elements and hands back a polished brand guidelines PDF in under five minutes.
  • Playwright crawls the site, Claude analyzes the brand signals, and Next.js and TypeScript turn the result into the guide.
  • The essay I wrote about building it won the ADP Business Knights Leadership Academy Scholarship.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Playwright
  • Claude API
  • Claude Skills
  • Cursor
  • Vercel
Live site
Pro Bono Consulting Club website homepage

Pro Bono Consulting Club website

Jun 2026 – Present

Free consulting for local businesses, and a front door for it.

  • Designed, built, and deployed the club's site from scratch on Next.js and React, hosted on Vercel.
  • Works alongside the club's LinkedIn and Instagram to reach Orlando business owners and recruit UCF students.
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Vercel
Live site

Awards

  • ADP Business Knights Leadership Academy $750 Scholar Award certificate for Zachary Weiss

    ADP Business Knights Leadership Academy Scholarship

    Apr 2026

    $750 scholarship from ADP through the UCF College of Business, awarded on a 500 to 750 word essay about leadership and career preparation. Mine was about building BrandLens, the web app that turns any website URL into a set of brand guidelines.

  • Zachary Weiss receiving the MECC Regionals certificate beside the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge banner

    MECC Regionals '26: 1st place Visual Case, 2nd place Data Case

    Apr 2026

    Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge regionals, hosted at UCF. First in the visual case and second in the data case, which helped UCF take first overall as a team.

  • Dean's List certificate for the Spring 2026 semester, Barry S. Miller College of Business

    Dean's List, UCF College of Business

    Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Named to the Dean's List three semesters running for a full-time GPA of 3.4 or higher.

Education

University of Central Florida

Barry S. Miller College of Business · Orlando, FL

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing

Expected May 2027

  • GPA: 3.42
  • Dean's List: Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026
  • Marketing Director, Pro Bono Consulting Club
  • Student member, American Marketing Association

Organizations

  • Pro Bono Consulting Club

    Marketing Director · Jun 2026 – Present

    UCF students doing free consulting for local Orlando businesses. I run the website, brand, LinkedIn, Instagram, and recruiting.

  • American Marketing Association

    Student Member · May 2026 – May 2027

    Student chapter: marketing events, guest speakers, and professional development.

Certifications

Anthropic · 7

  • Claude Partner Badge: Claude CodeJul 2026 – Jan 2027
  • Introduction to Model Context ProtocolApr 2026
  • Introduction to Agent SkillsApr 2026
  • Claude Code in ActionMar 2026
  • Building with the Claude APIMar 2026
  • AI Fluency: Framework and FoundationsMar 2026
  • Claude 101Mar 2026

Microsoft · 1

  • Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate (Excel and Excel 2019)Feb 2026

Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge · 1

  • MECC Regionals '26 at University of Central FloridaApr 2026

Canva · 1

  • Canva EssentialsMar 2026

LinkedIn Learning · 10

  • Canva Essential TrainingFeb 2026
  • Google Ads Essential TrainingFeb 2026
  • SEO FoundationsFeb 2026
  • Critical ThinkingFeb 2026
  • AI for MarketingFeb 2026
  • Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps) Cert PrepFeb 2026
  • Business Development Foundations: Researching Market and Customer NeedsFeb 2026
  • Integrating Generative AI into Business StrategyFeb 2026
  • Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365)Feb 2026
  • Marketing Tools: Digital Marketing Tools and ServicesJan 2026

Skills

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Engineering

AI

Marketing

Tools

Working style

Interests

New Yorker at heart. Moved to Florida in 2015 and kept the teams: die-hard Jets and Knicks fan, for better or worse.

  • Movies
  • Football (NY Jets)
  • Basketball (NY Knicks)
  • Tennis and pickleball
  • Chess
  • Time with friends

What I'm working on

As of September 2026.

  1. Still shipping to the NYTrafficTicket CRM

    The internship ended, the work did not. Twenty-three pull requests merged in September alone, on backups, database recovery, and the rest of the security backlog.

  2. Running marketing for the Pro Bono Consulting Club

    The website, LinkedIn, and Instagram for UCF's free-consulting club, plus this fall's push to bring in Orlando business owners and recruit new student consultants.

  3. Building this site

    A pixel-art room where every object is a piece of the resume. The art is generated, cut out, and placed by hand, and the animations are plain CSS.

  4. Syllabify just shipped

    A syllabus-to-calendar app that reads PDFs, Word files, and photos entirely in the browser. No account, no server, no class limit. Live at syllabify-app.vercel.app.

  5. Keeping BrandLens live

    The brand-guidelines generator is still up, so anyone can run it on their own site.

  6. Senior year at UCF

    Finishing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing, on track to graduate May 2027.

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