Chris Zaharia
Staff Software Engineer at Q-CTRL
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolChris Zaharia is a Staff Software Engineer in Sydney with 12 years of experience building impactful products at the intersection of deep tech and business. As co-founder and former CTO/CEO of Zookal and Tepy, he has led teams to commercialize education platforms at scale and a non-invasive neurotech wearable for silent communication. Now at Q-CTRL he applies that entrepreneurial rigor to software for quantum hardware control, bringing hands-on experience in embedded systems and backend data streaming from contributions to projects like the OpenBCI Python library. He combines full-stack engineering, hardware integration, and product strategy to turn research-grade ideas into deployable systems, and his background in both software engineering and accounting gives him an uncommon operational and technical perspective.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (7)
openbci10
embedded10
data-streaming10
sys10
python10
tcp9
ip9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openbci-archive/OpenBCI_Python
Apr 2018 - May 2018
The Python software library designed to work with OpenBCI hardware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 24 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the OpenBCI Python library, focusing on enhancing functionality related to the OpenBCI WiFi hardware. They implemented features to control and configure the WiFi shield, including setting sample rates and toggling the accelerometer. The user also addressed issues related to data streaming and Python 3 compatibility, indicating involvement in both the backend data processing and hardware interaction aspects of the library. Furthermore, they fixed raw data output over TCP.
library-softwarepythonopenbcihardware
chrisjz/sm64vr
Mar 2014 - Apr 2022
Super Mario 64 partial re-make in VR using the Oculus Rift, Razer Hydra and Leap Motion.
Contributions:1 release, 269 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 1 month
oculus-questpartialvirtual-realityriftleap-motion
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