Software engineer in LA. Rust, TypeScript, AI infra, Astro/Svelte/Vue full-stack.
Founder/CTO @ Socialaize · Founder @ Black Leaf Digital · zachhandley.com · zach@blackleafdigital.com
- Socialaize — AI-powered social media management. Astro SSR + Vue 3 + Python AI workers, subscription billing, cross-platform scheduling & analytics.
- Black Leaf Digital — agency / consulting since 2019.
- zachhandley.com — this site. Threlte/Svelte 3D scene + Appwrite-backed link CMS on Cloudflare Workers. Source ↗.
- ELID — sortable hash IDs for vector embeddings: ULID-shaped, but the IDs preserve "closeness" so neighbours sort near each other.
- Blazen — workflow & event-driven orchestration for agentic flows (works for any workflow).
- FakeNotify — inotify-shaped FS events for NFS mounts, because real inotify doesn't reach there.
- ZVD — FFmpeg, in Rust.
- ZSync — central-server file sync platform with SSH key management.
- Z3Fungi — distributed caching layer for S3.
- AppwriteUtils ⭐30 — migrations + dev-ergonomics toolkit for Appwrite. (Powers this site's schema.)
- ez-i18n ⭐7 — tiny i18n with first-class SSR.
- ZAstroWebsockets — Astro Node + Cloudflare SSR adapters with WebSocket server support.
- ContentShield — multilingual profanity check.
- amplify-astro-adapter — AWS Amplify adapter for modern Astro (
GetEnv+ session support).
Rust · TypeScript · Python · Svelte · Vue 3 · Astro · Threlte · Appwrite · Cloudflare Workers · Tailwind v4





