# Zach Cowan

Software engineer, Core Platform at Vercel

I'm a software engineer on Vercel's Core Platform team, with a focus on databases, caching, observability, alerting, and incident response in the world of agents.

Before Vercel, I worked on web-framework engineering at American Express and embedded-systems engineering at Lockheed Martin.

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## Experience

- **Vercel**: Software engineering, core platform
- **American Express**: Software engineering, web frameworks
- **Lockheed Martin**: Software engineering, embedded systems

## Recent work

- [SRE incident response eve template](https://x.com/eve/status/2092310036462944710): An agent workflow for investigating and resolving production incidents across observability tools.
- [Making agent-friendly pages with content negotiation](https://vercel.com/blog/making-agent-friendly-pages-with-content-negotiation): A practical guide to serving Markdown to agents from the same URL that serves HTML to people.

## Profiles

- [github.com/zacowan](https://github.com/zacowan)
- [linkedin.com/in/zacowan](https://linkedin.com/in/zacowan)
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