Zain Wania

Staff Engineer

Toronto, Canada·zain@wania.dev·github.com/ZainW·linkedin.com/in/zainw

About

I build software — full-stack, with an eye toward user experience and long-term maintainability.

Currently Staff Engineer at ContactMonkey, where I architect systems for a ~20-person engineering org and lead AI-powered product development. Based in Toronto.

Experience

ContactMonkeyOct 2019 - Present

Staff EngineerApr 2024 - Present

Architecting systems and setting technical direction for a ~20-person engineering organization. Co-architected the AI email checker; independently designed and built the internal knowledge base agent and MCP server.

Technical LeadFeb 2022 - Apr 2024

Led the frontend platform team and drove design system adoption

Senior Software EngineerOct 2019 - Feb 2022

Core contributor to the product's Vue.js frontend and internal tooling

Ample OrganicsJan 2018 - Sep 2019

Software DeveloperJan 2018 - Sep 2019

Built the Vue.js frontend, introduced E2E testing, and established the component library from scratch

Exact MediaFeb 2016 - Apr 2017

Full Stack DeveloperFeb 2016 - Apr 2017

Full-stack development across client projects with Rails and JavaScript

Tech Stack

TypeScript · Vue.js · Nuxt · Node.js · Fastify · Nitro · Tailwind CSS · AWS · Cloudflare · Docker · PostgreSQL · Bun