Zac Bowling
Staff Software Engineer at City of Alameda
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarZac Bowling is a Staff AI Software Engineer with 26 years of systems and developer-tools experience, currently leading AI-powered tooling for AV/VR creators at Meta Reality Labs. He has deep compiler, runtime, and platform expertise from building SDKs and LLVM/MLIR-based tools at Modular and early system software and Bluetooth stacks at Google’s Fuchsia project. A pragmatic polyglot, Zac has shipped production systems in Rust, C/C++, Swift, Objective-C, Dart, Go and has a strong history of porting and reimplementing runtimes and developer-facing tooling. Beyond engineering, he serves on Alameda’s Open Government Commission and the California Democratic Party executive board, reflecting his interest in civic technology and public service. Notably, his career blends startup founding and early-product leadership with large-scale product shipping, from bootstrapped apps to millions of devices.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English, klingon
Github Skills (164)
programming-language10
package-management10
forge10
package-manager-tool10
max10
modular10
ecma10
dotnet10
ai10
swift10
rust10
cli10
conda10
android10
package-manager10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
modular/magic-docker
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
A docker image for the magic package manager
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 10 PRs in 4 months
zbowling/tinderbox
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:37 commits in 27 days
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