ackerWorkday
4Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, calculated fields. If it touches Workday data, I've probably built the pipe.
StudioEIBCore ConnectorsCalculated fields
Builds systems.Leads people.Breaks things on purpose.
Software engineer and people leader. A decade of enterprise systems, Workday integrations, and automation. Now leading AI Engineering.
acker.cloud is the working record of one engineer: enterprise systems, the writing that came out of building them, and the ventures running alongside.
- 10+yrs
- enterprise systems
- 7+yrs
- workday integrations
- 10
- disciplines shipped
- 4
- ventures running
About Zac
I'm Zac. I've spent 10+ years building the systems that connect enterprise platforms to each other and to the people who depend on them.
Most of that decade lives in Workday: integrations, data pipelines, and the messy middle ground where business strategy meets production code. Now I lead AI Engineering, which mostly means figuring out how a team ships faster without shipping garbage.
Hands-on code and hands-on leadership, same person.
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Current focus
Leading AI Engineering. Building AI-powered development accelerators that turn specs into working code. The goal is eliminating the repetitive 80% so developers can focus on the interesting 20%.
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Systems built
Every process you add, every approval layer, every “let me loop in my manager” is a symptom of missing trust. Fix the trust and half your processes become unnecessary.
systems
Where the work lives
I design, build, and maintain Workday integrations from initial architecture through production support. Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, calculated fields. If it touches Workday data, I've probably built the pipe.
Building AI-powered development accelerators that turn specs into working code. The goal is eliminating the repetitive 80% so developers can focus on the interesting 20%.
I help teams adopt new tools, clean up technical debt, and migrate between systems without losing their minds. The work is usually less glamorous than it sounds: data mapping, stakeholder alignment, honest timelines.
I coach developers and consultants into stronger technical contributors. That means code reviews, architecture walkthroughs, and the unglamorous work of helping people think through problems before they start typing.
- Think engineering notebook, not agency deck.
- Workday plumbing on one side, AI tooling on the other.
- Written by the person who ran the deploys.
toolset
What I actually do
shipped across · 10
- Enterprise systems consulting
- Managed services
- Full-stack application development
- AI software engineering
- Website development
- DevOps
- Security and authentication
- iOS apps
- Progressive web apps
- Hardware and networking
AI Engineering
6Development accelerators that turn specs into working code, plus the MCP servers and agent skills the accelerators run on.
Claude CodeCodexCursorMCP serversAgent skillsInternal tooling
Platform
6The plumbing underneath: integrations, data movement, reporting, and the security around all of it.
PythonIntegrationAutomationData AnalysisReporting & AnalyticsAuthentication & Security
Leading
5Code reviews, architecture walkthroughs, and the unglamorous work of helping people think through problems before they start typing.
CoachingMentoringProject ManagementHiringHeadcount Planning
daily drivers · 26
Apple MacBookApple iPhoneUbiquiti NetworkingProxmox ServerMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft FoundryWorkdayServiceNowAtlassianLinearVercelVS CodeXcodeGitHubGitHub CopilotClaude CoworkClaude.aiClaude CodeCodexChatGPTWispr FlowNotionFigmaRaindrop.ioBitwarden
ventures
The operating portfolio
Thrive Culture Media
thrivecmd.com ↗A media brand built on specificity. Opinionated writing across five verticals, run entirely on Notion and Super.so.
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Thrive Culture Media home page across the five verticals, on a laptop.
16:9zckr.dev
AI engineering playground. What's being built now, what shipped, what died trying. zckr.dev
collect.
A personal cataloging app for iPhone and iPad. No accounts, no servers, private by design. About the app
Homegrown Infrastructure
Proxmox, RAID arrays, Linux LXCs, enterprise networking at home. The zero-guardrails test bench behind everything else.
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