I'm Zech.
I build software.

Twenty years of it, most built in the margins of an ordinary day. Now it's AI agent systems, and it's the whole day.

For nine years, the days belonged to something else.

I led a team at a grocery store in upstate New York: scheduling, logistics, and holding it together when three things broke at once. It taught me more about systems than any classroom did, and I've got the CS degree to compare it against.

Everything I built, I built after hours.

More than 800 daily challenges, plus the bots and the frameworks. I wrote them one weekday at a time, in the hours after my shift, when the floor was finally someone else's problem. Before anyone was watching.

Not anymore.

The commute stops. The store closes behind me. The hours I used to steal at night are the whole day now.

Proof I don't stop.

Those challenges I wrote after hours became Smarter Dev, a community of more than 13,000 developers. Six years on, I still keep the lights on. Not because anyone paid me to. Because shipping every day is just how I work.

Judgment, not keystrokes.

A decade of Python: frameworks, services, infrastructure, rebuilt until they were right. It taught me that orchestration is a systems problem, and most teams treat it like a prompting problem. So I build multi-agent systems that plan, execute, and review real work, the way I once ran a floor.

Put it to work.

I'm building agent orchestration products and writing it all down as I go. If you need agents doing dependable work in production, not demos, I take on scoped consulting engagements.