Summary
Joey Zacherl is a pragmatic technology leader and entrepreneur with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack products and leading engineering teams as CTO and founder. He blends engineering rigor with product and design sensibilities, specializing in interactive visual experiences, intuitive UI/UX, and gamified workflows that accelerate user onboarding and engagement. Joey has founded and led startups (VolleyFire, Rook Labs), served as CTO at SMG, and contributes to blockchain governance as a Bootstrap Delegate at 0x Labs, reflecting a mix of product, cloud, and decentralized systems expertise. His technical breadth spans mobile (iOS/Android), IoT and home automation, Ethereum/blockchain, graphics/animations, and reverse engineering, and he moves quickly from prototype to MVP. Colleagues describe him as resourceful and collaborative—someone who converts high-level goals into runnable plans while creating tooling that speeds delivery. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area and trained in computer engineering at Clarkson University, he brings an engineer’s curiosity and a designer’s eye to complex, customer-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Clarkson University