Zac Staples
Founder And CEO at Caliburn Technologies
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZac Staples is a founder and CEO who has translated 22 years of U.S. Navy operational experience into building Fathom5, an Austin-based industrial cybersecurity and actuator company delivering AI-enabled, cyber-resilient systems for maritime and defense edge use cases. Since 2018 he has led continuous growth and profitability while securing 17 patents and achieving the first program-of-record AI deployment aboard a Navy warship. A former Director of the Center for Cyber Warfare and Naval Postgraduate School faculty, he combines hands-on engineering leadership with applied research into shipboard electronics and industrial control systems. Zac’s work sits at the nexus of hardware, cyber resilience, and AI optimization, with a practical focus on ports, ships, and insurers. He is pragmatic about mission-driven innovation and notable for moving classified maritime cyber concepts into deployable commercial and defense products.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Engineering, B.S. Engineering at United States Naval AcademyM.A. International Relations, M.A. International Relations at Naval Postgraduate School
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Github Skills (35)
programming-language10
go10
api10
golang10
mongodb10
encoder9
great-circle9
devops9
rest9
julia9
rest-api9
arduino8
gadfly8
graphic8
restful-api8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FATHOM5/haversine
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Haversine is a Go package that finds the shortest great circle route between to points on the earth.
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
go-packagesgreat-circlehaversine
FATHOM5CORP/ais
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Package ais provides types and methods for conducting data science on signals generated by maritime entities radiating from an Automated Identification System (AIS) transponder as mandated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for vessels over 300 gross tons and all passenger vessels.
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 1 month
data-science
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