Sam Zeckendorf
Lead Hardware Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Zeckendorf is a lead hardware engineer with 12 years of experience designing complex consumer and space-grade systems, currently driving special projects at Apple in San Francisco. He has led hardware teams at SpaceX—owning electrical design for Starlink phased-array antennas and Crew Dragon systems—and previously shaped thoughtful home hardware at Google and Nest. Sam blends hardware and software fluency, shipping products from prototype to production while juggling indie game and app projects on the side. Known for a pragmatic, test-first approach ("measure once, cut twice"), he favors elegant system integration and rapid iteration to turn ambitious concepts into reliable hardware.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tufts University
Github Skills (7)
assembler8
accelerometer6
axis6
python6
mips5
raspberry4
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zeckendorf/resume
Jan 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
cssjavascript
zeckendorf/ADXL362-RPi
Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
raspberry-piaxisraspberryraspberrypiaccelerometer
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